| Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity Contributor(s): Suoqiao, Qian (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004192131 ISBN-13: 9789004192133 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - History | Asia - General - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 895.185 |
| LCCN: 2010033348 |
| Series: Ideas, History, and Modern China |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.20 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Chinese modernity discourses have been dominated by nationalism and revolutionary radicalism in much of the 20th century, but liberal cosmopolitanism has always been an important force in modern Chinese intellectuality, though a much neglected topic in modern Chinese studies. This book is a cross-cultural critique on the problem of the liberal cosmopolitan in modern Chinese intellectuality in light of Lin Yutang's literary and cultural practices across China and America. It includes comparative reference to other discourses of major literary and intellectual figures such as Zhang Zhidong, Liang Qichao, Gu Hongming, Hu Shi, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Pearl S. Buck, Agnes Smedley and Edgar Snow. It also demonstrates that a liberal cosmopolitan road, which suggests a middling Chinese modernity, is both possible and desirable. |