This book surveys the literature of mainland China, concentrating on fiction, poetry and drama, with background information on the historical, social and cultur

At least since the late nineteenth century onwards, Chinese literature as a form of cultural production has been taking place within a specific social space, in

A comprehensive collection on twentieth-century educational practices in China

Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the acade

A historical survey of 20th-century Chinese literature, this book chronicles the writers who - continuing in the Chinese tradition of using literature to exert