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Bringing the world home [electronic resource] : appropriating the West in late Qing and early Republican China / Theodore Huters.

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Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China's vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919--a crucial period that marks a watershed between the conservative old regime and the ostensibly iconoclastic New Culture of the 1920s. Although generally overlooked in the effort to understand modern...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author: Huters, Theodore
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Chinese literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Chinese literature > 20th century > Western influences.
Chinese literature.
Chinese literature > Western influences.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Late Qing ideas
  • China as origin
  • Appropriations: another look at Yan Fu and western ideas
  • New ways of writing
  • New theories of the novel
  • pt. 2. Late Qing novels
  • Wu Jianren: engaging the world
  • Melding East and West: Wu Jianren's New story of the stone
  • Impossible representations: visions of China and the West in Flower in a sea of retribution.
  • pt. 3. The new republic
  • The contest over universal values
  • Swimming against the tide: the Shanghai of Zhu Shouju
  • Lu Xun and the crisis of figuration.

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