Fin-de-siècle splendor
Original title: Fin-de-siècle splendor
first published 1997 Mai tian chu ban shi ye bu, 2003 465 pages
The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient moderniti...
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