China's Literary Cosmopolitans (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004299962)

Vendor: Christopher Rea
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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China's Literary Cosmopolitans

$183.00

China's Literary Cosmopolitans

$183.00
Format: Hardcover
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China's Literary Cosmopolitans offers a comprehensive introduction to the literary oeuvres of Qian Zhongshu (1910-98) and Yang Jiang (b. 1911). It assesses their novels, essays, stories, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism, and discusses their reception as two of the most important Chinese scholar-writers of the twentieth century.

In addition to re-evaluating this married couple's intertwined literary careers, the book also explains why they have come to represent such influential models of Chinese literary cosmopolitanism. Uncommonly well-versed in Western languages and literatures, Qian and Yang chose to live in China and write in Chinese. China's Literary Cosmopolitans argues for their artistic importance while analyzing their works against the modern cultural imperative that Chinese literature be worldly.

Author: Christopher Rea
ISBN-10: 9004299963
ISBN-13: 9789004299962
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/24/2015
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.80d
By Christopher Rea
By Christopher Rea
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Christopher Rea (Ph.D., Columbia) is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (California, 2015), co-editor of The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia (UBC Press, 2015), and editor of Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays by Qian Zhongshu (Columbia, 2011).

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