Modernist Poetics in China: Consumerist Economics and Chinese Literary Modernism

by Ronald Schleifer and Tiao Wang

Book Overview

This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics. Consumerist economics include the artificial "person" of the corporation, the vertical integration of production, and consumption based upon desire as well as necessity. This book assumes that poetics can be understood as a theory in practice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031009150
• ISBN13: 9783031009150
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"