Twentieth-century literary encounters in China : modernism, travel, and form / Jeffrey Mather.

"From the travel writing of the eccentric plant collector and Reginald Farrer, to Emily Hahn's insider depictions of bohemian life in semi-colonial Shanghai, to Ezra Pound's mediated 'journeys' to Southwest China via the explorer Joseph Rock - Anglo-American representations...

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Main Author: Mather, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 68.
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- Part I. Borderlands : 2. Frank Kingdon-Ward's Deep Map: Charting Southwest China -- 3. On the Eaves of the World: Liminal Landscapes and the Writings of Reginald Farrer -- Part II : Cosmopolitan Performances. 4. Writing Lives in Emily Hahn's China -- 5. Between the Lines: Reading Romance in Han Suyin's Autofiction -- Part III : Mobile Poetics. 6. Harriet Monroe in China: Modern Poetry and the Open Door Policy -- 7. Ethnography and poetic method: Southwest China, Joseph Rock, and Ezra Pound's "Drafts & Fragments" -- 8. Conclusion: 'A Cycle of Cathay.' 
520 |a "From the travel writing of the eccentric plant collector and Reginald Farrer, to Emily Hahn's insider depictions of bohemian life in semi-colonial Shanghai, to Ezra Pound's mediated 'journeys' to Southwest China via the explorer Joseph Rock - Anglo-American representations of China during the first half of the twentieth century were often unconventional in terms of style, form, and content. By examining a range of texts that were written in the flux of travel - including poems, novels, autobiographies - this study argues that the tumultuous social and political context of China's Republican Period (1912-49) was a key setting for conceptualizing cultural modernity in global and transnational terms. In contrast with accounts that examine China's influence on Western modernism through language, translation, and discourse, the book recovers a materialist engagement with landscapes, objects, and things as transcribed through travel, ethnographic encounter, and embodied experience. The book is organized by three themes which suggest formal strategies through which notions cultural modernity were explored or contested: borderlands, cosmopolitan performances, and mobile poetics. As it draws from archival sources in order to develop these themes, this study offers a place-based historical perspective on China's changing status in Western literary cultures"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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