The Emergence of Modernity in China: Cultural Transformation and Literature in the Late Qing and Early Republican Era

Author: Wang Yichuan
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: "The Series of Cultural Poetics" is another effort by the academic community of literary studies at Beijing Normal University to move towards the forefront of literary studies. The ten books in this series are diverse in content, spanning ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. The authors also have distinct personalities, making their "appearances" quite different. However, our methods are all rooted in "cultural poetics." Tracing cultural backgrounds and revealing cultural meanings, discussing the ancient inevitably involves the modern, and discussing the West inevitably involves the East. Bridging the cultural distance between the East and West, ancient and modern, is a fundamental academic pursuit of this series. "The Series of Cultural Poetics" is another effort by the academic community of literary studies at Beijing Normal University to move towards the forefront of literary studies. The ten books in this series are diverse in content, spanning ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. The authors also have distinct personalities, making their "appearances" quite different. However, our methods are all rooted in "cultural poetics." Tracing cultural backgrounds and revealing cultural meanings, discussing the ancient inevitably involves the modern, and discussing the West inevitably involves the East. Bridging the cultural distance between the East and West, ancient and modern, is a fundamental academic pursuit of this series.