A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune - Classical-Style Poetry of Modern Chinese Writers

In A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune, Haosheng Yang studies the classical-style poems of the most iconoclastic May Fourth Chinese writers and highlights the use of traditional language and forms as a salient facet of Chinese literary modernity.

About the author

Haosheng Yang, Ph.D. (Harvard, 2008), is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Miami University of Ohio. She specializes in late Qing, modern, and contemporary Chinese literature and culture and has published a number of articles in the field.

Product details

• Authors: Haosheng Yang
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2016
• EAN: 9789004310797
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31079-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Ideas, History, and Modern Chi
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies