Seeing Through Abstraction - Literary Encounters With Information in Modern China

This book examines how writers of the Republican era (1912-1949) came to recognize and respond to "information."

About the author

Anatoly Detwyler is an assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a coeditor of Information: A Reader and Literary Information in China: A History, both published by Columbia University Press in 2021.

Product details

• Authors: Anatoly Detwyler
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2025
• EAN: 9780231219891
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21989-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; China, COMPUTERS / Information Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, information architecture, Information theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, literary criticism; computers