China's Stefan Zweig : : The Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Reception / / Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle; ed. by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu.

During his lifetime Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was among the most widely read German-language writers in the world. Always controversial, he fell into critical disfavor as writers and critics in a devastated postwar Europe attacked the poor literary quality of his works and excoriate...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Critical Interventions
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Use of Characters and Romanization
  • 1. Introduction: The Stefan Zweig Conundrum
  • PART ONE. Stefan Zweig and the Making of Modern China (1921-1949)
  • 2. Introducing Zweig in Turbulent Times: From the New Culture Movement to Illegal Communist Propaganda
  • 3. Zweig and the Chinese Love-Letter Fever: The Many Uses of Letter from an Unknown Woman in Republican China
  • PART TWO. Communist Rereadings of Stefan Zweig (1949-2013
  • 4. The Antibourgeois Bourgeois Writer: The Rediscovery of Zweig in Communist China
  • 5. The Ideal Woman? The "Zweig-Style Female Figures" in Post-Mao China
  • Outlook: Zweig on the Chinese Screen and Stage
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Chinese Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index