| Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey Contributor(s): Ch'i, Pang-Yuan (Editor), Wang, Te-Wei (Editor), Wang, David Der-Wei (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0253337100 ISBN-13: 9780253337108 Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) OUR PRICE: $43.51 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2000 Annotation: This volume offers a survey of Chinese Literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce the figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the reality of Chinese cultural politics; and (3) to observe the historical factors behind the interplay of literary (post)modernities in the Chinese communities of the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 895.109 |
| LCCN: 99058462 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.41" W x 9.51" (1.46 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: . . . an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature. -- Choice This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949 . . . discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and societal issues in modern Chinese literature. --Library Journal This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the enunciative endeavors, ranging from ideological treatises to avant-garde experiments, that inform the polyphonic discourse of Chinese cultural politics; (3) to observe the historical factors that enacted the interplay of literary (post)modernities across the Chinese communities in the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas. |