Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide: 360 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) - Hardcover

Wang, Xiaojue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674726723 ISBN 13: 9780674726727

Verlag: Harvard University, Asia Center, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide

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Reseña del editor:

The year 1949 witnessed China divided into multiple political and cultural entities. How did this momentous shift affect Chinese literary topography? Modernity with a Cold War Face examines the competing, converging, and conflicting modes of envisioning a modern nation in mid-twentieth century Chinese literature. Bridging the 1949 divide in both literary historical periodization and political demarcation, Xiaojue Wang proposes a new framework to consider Chinese literature beyond national boundaries, as something arising out of the larger global geopolitical and cultural conflict of the Cold War. Examining a body of heretofore understudied literary and cultural production in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas during a crucial period after World War II, Wang traces how Chinese writers collected artistic fragments, blended feminist and socialist agendas, constructed ambivalent stances toward colonial modernity and an imaginary homeland, translated foreign literature to shape a new Chinese subjectivity, and revisited the classics for a new time. Reflecting historical reality in fictional terms, their work forged a path toward multiple modernities as they created alternative ways of connection, communication, and articulation to uncover and undermine Cold War dichotomous antagonism.

Biografía del autor:

Xiaojue Wang is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania.

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• Verlag: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0674726723
• ISBN 13: 9780674726727
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376