Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan

by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang

The first comprehensive English-language study of literary trends in the fiction of Taiwan over the last forty years, this pioneering work explores a rich tradition of literary Modernism in its shifting relationship with Chinese politics and culture.
Situating her subject in its historical context, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang traces the connection between Taiwan's Modernists and the liberal scholars of pre-Communist China. She discusses the Modernists'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822313480
• ISBN13: 9780822313489
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.2"