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David Der-wei Wang
This study of late Qing fiction discusses more than sixty works, at least half of which have rarely or never been dealt with by Western or Chinese scholars. This book…
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Topics covered include Chinese/Sinophone identity in the digital age; the challenges and opportunities of digital media, including the impact of censorship; decentralization versus the hegemonic exercise of cultural memory in…
Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial…
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David Der-Wei Wang
In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many…
In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China’s social and political crises in…
Featuring over 140 Chinese and non-Chinese contributors, this landmark volume, edited by David Der-wei Wang, explores unconventional forms as well as traditional genres, emphasizes Chinese authors’ influence on foreign writers…
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Focusing on themes of crisis and innovation, this book illuminates the late Ming and late Qing as eras of literary-cultural innovation during periods of imperial disintegration; analyzes links between the…
Presenting an array of cutting edge perspectives on modern Chinese literature in different Sinophone contexts, this volume of essays offers a wide range of critical approaches to the study of…
This collection is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwanese literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present.
The fourteen contemporary novellas and stories in Running Wild represent the best of new Chinese writers from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the U.S., and New Zealand.
This volume seeks to demonstrate that two periods - 1918-30 and 1966-76 - of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in 20th-century China, aimed to liberate these arts from previous…
Eileen Chang
This is the story of Yindi, a beautiful young bride who marries the blind, bedridden son of a rich and noble family. Yindi is pressed beneath the weight of an…
This novel portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement brings to a southern village in China during the early 1950s. Contrary to the hopes of the peasants in…
David Der-Wai Wang
A reinterpretation of three modern Chinese writers whose work, the author argues, gave rise to the polyphonic development of realism in Chinese literature.
Presents a preliminary survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. This title introduces figures, works, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature…
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Stories born of the trials and heartache of exile in Taiwan.
Brings together 17 essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. This book explores a number of topics through a variety of theoretical…
Guanzhong Luo
In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. Quelling the Demons’ Revolt is…
The authors of this volume seek to approach the May Fourth movement of 1919 from novel perspectives and contribute to the ongoing critique of the movement. The essays are centered…
