The Lure of the Modern
Subtitle: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780520220645
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Modernism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Chinese literature; Social Science; Chinese; Sociology; Modernism (Literature); Asian - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; China; Ethnic Studies - General; 20th century; History and criticism
First sentence: Time, rather than space, was the crucial category in the radical rethinking of Chinese culture and literature during the May Fourth era (1917-1927).