Fin-De-Siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1848-1911

by David Der-wei Wang and Te-Wei Wang

Book Overview

The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient modernities. It demonstrates that late...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804728453
• ISBN13: 9780804728454
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"