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: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 12.09.2025
• EAN: 9780231219884
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21988-4
• Illustrations: 28 b&w illustrations
• Subjects: 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