Questions of style : : literary societies and literary journals in modern China, 1911-1937 / / by Michel Hockx.

• Superior document: China studies, v. 2
• VerfasserIn: Hockx, Michel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: China Studies 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 pages) :; illustrations.

Dealing with the central issue of style in literature, this groundbreaking study is a must for sinologists, but also for all students of comparative literature. Michel Hockx takes as a point of departure the observation that most writers of the Republican period adhered to a distinctly traditional p...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Creation by (Dis)Association : Literary Societies Entering the Modern Age
• The Societal and the Textual : New Literature Groups of the 1920s and 1930s and Their Journals
• The Collective Author and the Horizontal Reader : Aesthetic Dimensions of Literary Journals
• Styles in Conflict: Liu Bannong and the Forms of New Poetry
• Personality in Style : Abusive Criticism and Zeng Jinke
• The Power of Writing: Censorship and the Establishment of Literary Value
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Members of The Literary Association
• Appendix B: Statistics on Literary Societies, Journals and Books.