Rethinking the modern Chinese canon
Subtitle: refractions across the transpacific
By: Clara Iwasaki
Series: Cambria Sinophone world series; Cambria sinophone world series
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Amherst, New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781621965473; 9781621965688
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Chinese literature; History and criticism; Translations into English
Description: "This book is intended for scholars of modern Chinese and Sinophone literature. It will also appeal more broadly to scholars of translation studies and comparative literature and may also be useful to scholars and students of American and Asian American literature and history as well. The principal Chinese authors discussed here--Lao She, Zhang Ailing, Xiao Hong, Yu Dafu, --are canonical authors of modern Chinese literature who have been translated into English and are frequently taught in graduate and undergraduate courses, making this book a strong complementary resource. Sato Haruo is a well-known figure in Japanese literature and the discussion of his interaction with Chinese writers in this book will complement the scholarship on his literature on colonial Taiwan. The discussion of the works of Agnes Smedley and Helen Foster Snow make this study of interest as well to those interested in the history of the American left or Sino-American literary interactions"--
Notes: Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--UCLA, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Second Chances: Xiao Hong, Helen Foster Snow, Upton Sinclair, and Agnes Smedley; title: Yu Dafu is Dead, Long Live Yu Dafu: Chinese, Malaysian, and Japanese Corpus Fetishism and the Limits of Retrieval; title: Pieces of a Broken Mirror: Lao She, Helena Kuo, Ma Xiaomi, and the Drum Singers; title: In My End is My Beginning: Zhang Ailing's Parasitic Autobiographical Novels; title: Conclusion.