TY - BOOK ID - 2892201 TI - Questions of style : literary societies and literary journals in modern China, 1911-1937 PY - 2003 VL - 2 SN - 9004129154 9004205675 9004228640 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - S16/0170 KW - S16/0190 KW - Chinese literature KW - -Chinese literature KW - -China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Literary criticism KW - Societies, etc KW - Periodicals KW - History and criticism KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature KW - Chinese literature. KW - Societies, etc. KW - History and criticism. KW - 1900-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2892201 AB - Dealing with the central issue of style in literature, this groundbreaking study is a must for sinologists, but also for all students of comparative literature. Michel Hockx takes as a point of departure the observation that most writers of the Republican period adhered to a distinctly traditional practice of gathering in literary societies, while at the same time displaying a marked preference for publishing their works through the modern medium of the literary journal. The first part of the book analyses different types of societies and their journals. The case studies in part two convey the wider impact of literary collectives and journal publications on literary practice. Convincingly breaking with the 'May Fourth' paradigm, the author proposes a radically new way of understanding the relationship between New Literature and other styles of modern Chinese writing. ER -