Bringing the World Home : Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China / / Theodore Huters.
Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that marks a watershed between the conservative old regime and the ostensibly iconoclastic New Culture of the 1920s. Although generally overlooked in the effort to understand modern Chines...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawai'i Press,, 2005. ©2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. China as Origin
- Chapter 2. Appropriations: Another Look at Yan Fu and Western Ideas
- Chapter 3. New Ways of Writing
- Chapter 4. New Theories of the Novel
- Chapter 5. Wu Jianren: Engaging the World
- Chapter 6. Melding East and West: Wu Jianren’s New Story of the Stone
- Chapter 7. Impossible Representations: Visions of China and the West in Flower in a Sea of Retribution
- Chapter 8. The Contest over Universal Values
- Chapter 9. Swimming against the Tide: The Shanghai of Zhu Shouju
- Chapter 10. Lu Xun and the Crisis of Figuration
- Afterword
- Notes
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index