Contending for the Chinese Modern
The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949
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Word Count
151,000 words, Guess
Page Count
604 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL38037907M
- ISBN-139789004398627
- OCLC Control Number1085781709
- Library of Congress Control Number2019007608
Classifications
- LCCPL2442.W3657 2019
Description
"In Contending for the 'Chinese Modern', Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. Through a practice of political hermeneutics of fictional texts and social subtexts, it explores how social modernity and literary modernity intertwined with and interacted upon each other in the development of modern Chinese literature. It not only makes critical reappraisement of some renowned modern Chinese writers, but also sheds fresh lights on a series of theoretical problems pertaining to the issue of plural modernities, in which the problematic of subjectivity, class consciousness and identity politics are the key words as well as the concrete procedures that it undertakes the ideological analysis. The manuscript signifies a new paradigm in studies of modern Chinese literature"--
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