Placing the modern Chinese vernacular in transnational literature
By: Gang Zhou
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780230109391
Subjects: Chinese and foreign; Theory; Comparative literature; Chinese literature; Foreign and Chinese; History and criticism
Description: This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the vernacular in modern China but also on the critical role of the rise of the vernacular in world literature, invoking parallel cases from countries throughout Europe and Asia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The language of utopia; title: The Chinese Renaissance; title: The shaky house; title: The "vernacular only" writing mode.