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Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that marks a watershed between the conservative old regime and the ostensibly iconoclastic New Culture of the 1920s. Although generally overlooked in the effort to understand modern Chinese history, the era has much to teach us about cultural accommodation and is characterized by its own unique intellectual life. This original and probing work traces the most significant strands of the new post-1895 discourse, concentrating on the anxieties inherent in a complicated process of cultural transformation. It focuses principally on how the need to accommodate the West was reflected in such landmark novels of the period as Wu Jianren’s Strange Events Eyewitnessed in the Past Twenty Years and Zhu Shouju’s Tides of the Huangpu, which began serial publication in Shanghai in 1916. The negative tone of these narratives contrasts sharply with the facile optimism that characterizes the many essays on the "New Novel" appearing in the popular press of the time. Neither iconoclasm nor the wholesale embrace of the new could square the contradicting intellectual demands imposed by the momentous alternatives presenting themselves.An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher.

Chinese literature --- Western influences. --- History and criticism. --- S02/0300 --- S02/0310 --- S16/0170 --- S16/0700 --- History and criticism --- Western influences --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the West and vice-versa --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Comparative literature --- Littérature chinoise --- Histoire et critique --- Influence occidentale --- Literature --- China --- History of China --- Lu Xun --- Qing dynasty --- Shanghai --- Western culture --- Western world --- Yan Fu

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Chinese fiction --- Short stories, Chinese --- History and criticism --- History and criticism

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In this bold, provocative collection, Wang Hui confronts some of the major issues concerning modern China and the status quo of contemporary Chinese thought. The book's overarching theme is the possibility of an alternative modernity that does not rely on imported conceptions of Chinese history and its legacy. Wang Hui argues that current models, based largely on Western notions of empire and the nation-state, fail to account for the richness and diversity of pre-modern Chinese historical practice. At the same time, he refrains from offering an exclusively Chinese perspective and placing China in an intellectual ghetto. Navigating terrain on regional language and politics, he draws on China's unique past to expose the inadequacies of European-born standards for assessing modern China's evolution. He takes issue particularly with the way in which nation-state logic has dominated politically charged concerns like Chinese language standardization and "The Tibetan Question." His stance is critical - and often controversial - but he locates hope in the kinds of complex, multifaceted arrangements that defined China and much of Asia for centuries. The Politics of Imagining Asia challenges us not only to re-examine our theories of "Asia" but to reconsider what "Europe" means as well. As Theodore Huters writes in his introduction, "Wang Hui's concerns extend beyond China and Asia to an ambition to rethink world history as a whole."

Civilization, Modern. --- Comparative civilization. --- East Asia --- Historiography --- Western countries --- Relations --- Political aspects --- Civilization. --- S02/0300 --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the West and vice-versa --- Civilisation moderne et contemporaine --- Civilisation comparée --- Extrême-Orient --- Foreign relations --- Civilisation --- Civilisation comparée --- Extrême-Orient --- Historical criticism --- History --- Civilization, Comparative --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Occident --- West (Western countries) --- Western nations --- Western world --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Civilization, Modern --- Comparative civilization --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Developed countries --- Orient --- Sociology of culture --- Asia

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A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond political utopianism and technological optimism, contemporary Chinese writers conjure glittering visions and subversive experiments-ranging from space opera to cyberpunk, utopianism to the posthuman, and parodies of China's rise to deconstructions of the myth of national development.This anthology showcases the best of contemporary science fiction from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China. In fifteen short stories and novel excerpts, The Reincarnated Giant opens a doorway into imaginary realms alongside our own world and the history of the future. Authors such as Lo Yi-chin, Dung Kai-cheung, Han Song, Chen Qiufan, and the Hugo winner Liu Cixin-some alive during the Cultural Revolution, others born in the 1980s-blur the boundaries between realism and surrealism, between politics and technology. They tell tales of intergalactic war; decoding the last message sent from an extinct human race; the use of dreams as tools to differentiate cyborgs and humans; poets' strange afterlife inside a supercomputer; cannibalism aboard an airplane; and unchecked development that leads to uncontrollable catastrophe. At a time when the Chinese government promotes the "Chinese dream," the dark side of the new wave shows a nightmarish unconscious. The Reincarnated Giant is an essential read for anyone interested in the future of the genre.

Chinese fiction --- Science fiction, Chinese --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Chinese science fiction --- Chinese literature --- S16/0175 --- S16/0475 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General anthologies of modern literature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Popular literature (incl. fairy tales, legends, storytelling)

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"This volume contains new translations of two of Lu Xun's most brilliant works beyond his short stories. Wild Grass is a collection of twenty-three experimental pieces, in which humans encounter ghosts, talking animals, sentient plants, and come face-to-face with their own corpses. In his depiction of the struggle of creatures to survive in an inhospitable world, Lu Xun poses the following question: What does it mean to be human? The eight essays collected in Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk depict experiences that shaped the life of the literary master. The characters, lives, and dreams of a motley cast of characters-the child, the servant, the dying, the outcast-figure in Lu Xun's memoir. Morning Blossoms affirms the meaning of lives, shining light on our common human predicament: of being without a home in the world"--

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