Chinese Modern - The Heroic and the Quotidian

"Read "Chinese Modern" for a journey through China's 'long twentieth century.' Xiaobing Tang as guide shows how imaginative sympathy for one's subject nourishes critical acuity."--Norma Field, University of Chicago

List of contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part I 11

Part II 163

Afterword 341

Glossary 349

Selected Bibliography 357

Index 369

About the author

Xiaobing Tang is Associate Professor in Modern Chinese Literature at the University of Chicago.

Summary

An analysis of the Chinese experience of modernity through the literary works, films and other cultural artefacts that represent it. Examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent 20th-century, this book will be useful to students of China, Asian studies, literary criticism, and cultural studies.

Product details

• Authors: Tang, Xiaobing Tang, Xiaobing Tang
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2000
• EAN: 9780822324126
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2412-6
• No. of pages: 402
• Weight: 1030 g
• Illustrations: 17 figures
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Chinesisch, China, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Kulturwissenschaften, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte