Contending for the Chinese Modern: The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949

by Xiaoping Wang

In Contending for the "Chinese Modern", Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. Through a practice of political hermeneutics of fictional texts and social subtexts, it explores how social modernity and literary modernity intertwined with and interacted upon each other in the development of modern Chinese literature. It not only makes critical reappraisement of some renowned modern Chinese writers, but also sheds fresh lights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004398627
• ISBN13: 9789004398627
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"