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- Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China
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- 2005
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
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Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that marks a watershed between the conservative old regime and the ostensibly iconoclastic New Culture of the 1920s. Although generally overlooked in the effort to understand modern Chinese history, the era has much to teach us about cultural accommodation and is characterized by its own unique intellectual life.
This original and probing work traces the most significant strands of the new post-1895 discourse, concentrating on the anxieties inherent in a complicated process of cultural transformation. It focuses principally on how the need to accommodate the West was reflected in such landmark novels of the period as Wu Jianren’s "Strange Events Eyewitnessed in the Past Twenty Years" and Zhu Shouju’s "Tides of the Huangpu", which began serial publication in Shanghai in 1916.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Part I: Late Qing Ideas
- Chapter 1. China as Origin
- pp. 23-42
- Chapter 3. New Ways of Writing
- pp. 74-99
- Chapter 4. New Theories of the Novel
- pp. 100-120
- Part II: Late Qing Novels
- Chapter 5. Wu Jianren: Engaging theWorld
- pp. 123-150
- Part III: The New Republic
- Chapter 8. The Contest over Universal Values
- pp. 203-228
- Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Terms
- pp. 325-334
- Works Cited
- pp. 335-362
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824874018
Related ISBN(s)
9780824828387
MARC Record
OCLC
1103690521
Pages
364
Launched on MUSE
2019-08-02
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND