The Translatability of Revolution - Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture

In the first comprehensive study of Guo Moruo in English, Pu Wang explores the dynamics of translation, revolution, and historical imagination in twentieth-century Chinese culture. Guo was a romantic writer, Mao Zedong's last poetic interlocutor, a Marxist historian, president of China's Academy of Sciences, and translator of Goethe's Faust.

Riassunto

In the first comprehensive study of Guo Moruo in English, Pu Wang explores the dynamics of translation, revolution, and historical imagination in twentieth-century Chinese culture. Guo was a romantic writer, Mao Zedong’s last poetic interlocutor, a Marxist historian, president of China’s Academy of Sciences, and translator of Goethe’s Faust.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Pu Wang
• Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780674987180
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98718-0
• Pagine: 352
• Dimensioni: 236 mm x 161 mm x 27 mm
• Peso: 616 g
• Illustrazioni: 5 halftones, 4 line illustrations
• Serie: Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Storia > Biografie, autobiografie