Contending for the Chinese Modern
Subtitle: The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9789004398627
Subjects: Chinese fiction, history and criticism; Literature and society
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"--