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

ISBN-13: 9781032088150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 182 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

IntroductionPart IBorderlandsFrank Kingdon-Ward’s Deep Map: Charting Southwest ChinaOn the Eaves of the World: Liminal Landscapes and the Writings of Reginald FarrerPart IICosmopolitan PerformancesWriting Lives in Emily Hahn’s ChinaBetween the Lines: Reading Romance in Han Suyin’s AutofictionPart IIIMobile PoeticsHarriet Monroe in China: Modern Poetry and the Open Door PolicyEthnography 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.