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China's Literary Cosmopolitans

China's Literary Cosmopolitans

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 9004299963
ISBN13: 9789004299962
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 24 2015
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
China's Literary Cosmopolitans offers a comprehensive introduction to the literary oeuvres of Qian Zhongshu (1910-98) and Yang Jiang (b. 1911). It assesses their novels, essays, stories, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism, and discusses their reception as two of the most important Chinese scholar-writers of the twentieth century.

In addition to re-evaluating this married couple's intertwined literary careers, the book also explains why they have come to represent such influential models of Chinese literary cosmopolitanism. Uncommonly well-versed in Western languages and literatures, Qian and Yang chose to live in China and write in Chinese. China's Literary Cosmopolitans argues for their artistic importance while analyzing their works against the modern cultural imperative that Chinese literature be worldly.

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