Title: Placing the modern Chinese vernacular in transnational literature
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.
Subjects: Chinese and foreign, Theory, Comparative literature, Chinese literature, Foreign and Chinese, History and criticism, Chinese literature, history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, Asian, General
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century