Contending for the Chinese Modern - The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949

In Contending for the "Chinese Modern", Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. It makes critical reappraisements of some famed Chinese writers, and sheds fresh lights on the theoretical issues pertaining to the problematic of plural modernities.

About the author

Xiaoping Wang, Ph.D. (2010), University of Texas at Austin, is Chair Professor of Chinese studies at Huaqiao University, and Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Arts and Humanities of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He has published more than 100 articles and numerous monographs, including Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema: Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); Postsocialist Conditions: Ideas and History in China's "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008 (Brill, 2018).

Product details

• Authors: Xiaoping Wang
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2019
• EAN: 9789004398627
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39862-7
• No. of pages: 616
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 1021 g
• Series: Ideas, History, and Modern Chi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works