A Cultural History of Modern Chinese Literature

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This is an illustrated cultural history of the emergence of modern literature in China from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Chinese Republic, the 1930s and the war period, ending in 1949. Wu Fuhui takes an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, drawing in book production, translation, popular and elite texts, international influences and political history. Presented here in English translation for the first time, Wu argues that this was a transformative period in Chinese literature informed both by developments in China's domestic history and the dynamics of global circulation and encounter.

Wu Fuhui is a scholar of the history of modern Chinese literature and has published widely on this topic. He is the former director of the Research Room of the National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, Deputy President of the Modern Chinese Literature Association and chief editor of the journal Modern Chinese Literature Studies.