Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China: Modernism, Travel, and Form

ISBN-13: 9780367415983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 172 str.

Jeffrey Mather

Opis

By examining a range of texts written in the flux of travel – including poems, novels, autobiographies – this study argues that the tumultuous social and political context of China’s Republican Period was a key setting for conceptualizing cultural modernity in global and transnational terms.

Spis treści

Introduction

Part I

Borderlands

Frank Kingdon-Ward’s Deep Map: Charting Southwest China

On the Eaves of the World: Liminal Landscapes and the Writings of Reginald Farrer

Part II

Cosmopolitan Performances

Writing Lives in Emily Hahn’s China

Between the Lines: Reading Romance in Han Suyin’s Autofiction

Part III

Mobile Poetics

Harriet Monroe in China: Modern Poetry and the Open Door Policy

Ethnography and poetic method: Southwest China, Joseph Rock, and Ezra Pound’s "Drafts & Fragments"

Conclusion: ‘A Cycle of Cathay’

O autorze

Jeffrey Mather is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. Originally from Canada, he completed his doctoral work at the University of Kent and has previously worked in academic positions in Taiwan and Mainland China. His work focuses on China/West literary studies, postcolonial writing, and modern and contemporary fiction.