At least since the late nineteenth century onwards, Chinese
literature as a form of cultural production has been taking place
within a specific social space, including writers, critics,
journalists, editors, publishers, printers and booksellers.
Focusing on people as well as on texts, and looking at what writers
did as well as at what they wrote, the essays in this volume draw a
vivid and variegated picture of Chinese literary life throughout
the modern period. The book treats differences between periods, but
also traces the continuities that have characterised modern Chinese
literary practice and its discourses from the beginning to the
present, including ties of allegiance, utilisation of 'the people'
and appropriation of the west. The book places modern Chinese
literature firmly within its socio-historical context, thereby
increasing the reader's awareness of the hidden assumptions behind
literary production. In doing so, it opens new perspectives on
Chinese culture as a whole, and on literature as a cosmopolitan
concept.
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