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Reception of Lin Yutang in Mainland China, U.S., and Taiwan: The Lone Wayfarer
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Literary CriticismChinese History
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ISBN13: 9781032835679
Publisher: Routledge
Pages: 272
Language: English
Reception of Lin Yutang in Mainland China, U.S., and Taiwan is the first comparative study of the reception of Lin Yutang and his writing in Mainland China, the United States and Taiwan. Yutang and his writings in these three regions have undergone constantly changing interpretations and reinterpretations up to the present day, and these multiple interpretations are not always mutually supplementary or complementary, but often antagonistic and incompatible.
The study traces these changing receptions of Yutang's writing in each location and explores the political, literary and cultural links between the three seemingly parallel threads. It asks two questions: What were the cultural and linguistic factors which led readers to interpret Lin Yutang and his works so differently over time and place? And what does the reception of Lin's writing tell us about the relation between art and politics on the international scene? The multilingualism and multiculturalism so central to Lin's writing give a global inflection to his Chinese orientation. The dynamic relations between Chinese-ness and global artistic and social ideas in his writing create a space of uncertainty and the potential for multiple interpretive perspectives. This book argues various 20th century political ideologies inform the reading formations which cast Lin as one kind of Chinese author or another. By examining the changing receptions of Lin's works across different languages, cultures and political ideologies, this book intends to reveal the intricate intertextualities and discursive interactions which make up different reading formations, that is, collective and situated ways of making sense of a mute text.
Lin's diasporic position and his cross-cultural writings have challenged the cultural power of nation-based or single language-based literary histories and literary canons. This book offers archival research and critical reading suggesting a different, more transnational perspective on Lin's writing and a comparative-intercultural approach to writing literary history.
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