| Contending for the Chinese Modern: The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949 Contributor(s): Wang, Xiaoping (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004398627 ISBN-13: 9789004398627 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $302.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Philosophy |
| Series: Ideas, History, and Modern China |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (2.25 lbs) 616 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Contending for the "Chinese Modern", Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. Through a practice of political hermeneutics of fictional texts and social subtexts, it explores how social modernity and literary modernity intertwined with and interacted upon each other in the development of modern Chinese literature. It not only makes critical reappraisement of some renowned modern Chinese writers, but also sheds fresh lights on a series of theoretical problems pertaining to the issue of plural modernities, in which the problematic of subjectivity, class consciousness and identity politics are the key words as well as the concrete procedures that it employs to undertake the ideological analysis. The manuscript signifies a new paradigm in studies of modern Chinese literature. |