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Literary Societies of Republican China (Paperback)
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Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and
comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the
most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era
of 1911-1949. Wedged between the fall of the Empire and the
founding of the Communist state, the Republican period witnessed
enormous social, political, and cultural changes. Traditionally the
period is seen as one of transition: from the country being
partially colonized and occupied to being an independent
nation-state, from Confucianism to socialism, from writing in
classical Chinese to writing in the everyday vernacular. Modern
scholarship, however, has become suspicious of such attempts to
analyze history, including cultural history, as a journey from A to
B via C. Instead, attention has turned to the 'thick description'
of complex historical phenomena without worrying about whether or
not they fit into some neat linear scheme. Inevitably, such
scholarship benefits from collaboration and teamwork, from the
juxtaposition of different insights and different materials in
order to gain in overall breadth. Literary Societies in Republican
China represents such teamwork and such breadth. The thirteen
essays by eleven scholars from North America, Europe, and Asia
present detailed discussions of particular literary groups active
on the Republican-era literary scene. Some of these groups are
familiar representatives of what used to be considered the
'mainstream, ' while others represent literary styles that have
hitherto been considered 'marginal' or that have been ignored
altogether. Each of the essays in this volume looks in detail at
literary societies both as producers of literary views and texts
and as organizations with sometimes very complex social structures.
The result is a unique blend of literary, cultural, and social
history, unrivalled in any English-language scholarship on China to
date
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