This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the
late Ming (1550-1644) and late Qing (1851-1911) eras. Although
conventionally associated with a devastating sociopolitical crisis,
each of these periods was also a time when Chinese culture was
rejuvenated. Focusing on the twin themes of crisis and innovation,
the seventeen chapters in this book aim to illuminate the late Ming
and late Qing as eras of literary-cultural innovation during
periods of imperial disintegration; to analyze linkages between the
two periods and the radical heritage they bequeathed to the modern
imagination; and to rethink the "premodernity" of the late Ming and
late Qing in the context of the end of the age of modernism.
The chapters touch on a remarkably wide spectrum of works, some
never before discussed in English, such as poetry, drama,
full-length novels, short stories, tanci narratives, newspaper
articles, miscellanies, sketches, familiar essays, and public and
private historical accounts. More important, they intersect on
issues ranging from testimony about dynastic decline to the
negotiation of authorial subjectivity, from the introduction of
cultural technology to the renewal of literary convention.
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