How modern Chinese literature was invented during the Cold War -- Fragments of modernity: Shen Congwen's journey from asylum to museum -- Over her dead body: Ding Ling's politicization after the socialist revolution -- Wu Zhuoliu, orphanization, and colonial modernity in Taiwan -- Fashioning socialist affinity: Feng Zhi and the legacy of European humanism in modern Chinese poetry -- Eileen Chang, Hong Kong, and the Cold War.
Summary:
"Bridging the 1949 divide in both literary historical periodization and political demarcation, Xiaojue Wang proposes a new framework to consider Chinese literature beyond national boundaries, as something arising out of the larger global geopolitical and cultural conflict of the Cold War."--Provided by publisher.
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