Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937: 2 (China Studies) - Softcover

Michel Hockx

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004205675 ISBN 13: 9789004205673

Publisher: BRILL, 2013

Synopsis

Convincingly breaking with the 'May Fourth' paradigm, Questions of Style argues a radically new way of understanding the relationship between New Literature and other styles of modern Chinese writing.

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Review:

'Graduate students for decades have been sent into the stacks of libraries to acquaint themselves with journals and their appearance and content, but perhaps never with the rigor and scope that Hockx has brought to this task of making journals the text of study, rather than the context.
Edward M. Gunn, MCLC, 2004.
'In the end, the number of questions raised by Hockx's study is the surest testimony to its richness: it takes on most of the major issues that should be involved in the study of modern Chinese literature, including many that have been heretofore swept under the rug. The controversies the book will inevitably raise will in many ways provide our field with a new agenda that should finally help us to transcend the old politically engendered paradigms that have hobbled us for so long.'
Theodore D. Huters, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 2005.

About the Author:

Michel Hockx, Ph.D. (1994) at Leiden University, is Professor of Chinese at SOAS, University of London. He has published extensively on modern Chinese poetry and on the sociology of modern Chinese literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9004205675
• ISBN 13: 9789004205673
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340