A Cultural History of Modern Chinese Literature

Download or read book A Cultural History of Modern Chinese Literature written by Fuhui Wu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an illustrated cultural history of the emergence of modern literature in China from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Chinese Republic, the 1930s and the war period, ending in 1949. Wu Fuhui takes an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, drawing in book production, translation, popular and elite texts, international influences and political history. Presented here in English translation for the first time, Wu argues that this was a transformative period in Chinese literature informed both by developments in China's domestic history and the dynamics of global circulation and encounter.