Overview
- Examines the impact of well-known Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Yutang’s intellectual legacy on modern China Focuses on the transnational relevance of Chinese cultural resources in the 21st century Contributes to a renewed understanding of the cross-cultural interactions between China and America
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Canon and World Literature (CAWOLI)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Lin Yutang and socio-cultural context of modern China
- Modern Chinese literature in the world
- Chinese intellectual history
- Cross-cultural biography
- Asian American literary studies
- US-China cultural relations
- rediscovery of Chinese cultural resources
- cross-cultural interactions between China and America
- literary diction
- chinese
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the socio-cultural and political context of modern China in terms of its interaction with America and the West, focusing on the influence of the well-known Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Yutang (1895-1976). Offering a unique study of the life and works of Lin Yutang, it highlights his intellectual legacy in modern China and considers how his cross-cultural life and ideas embodied the modern Chinese cultural experience. It notably focuses on Lin’s reputation as an outspoken critic of the infringement of human rights during the rise of the Communist regime in China, but also on his rediscovery of Chinese cultural resources. At a time when China’s cultural contributions are increasingly relevant worldwide, this book contributes to ongoing critical reflections of Chinese modernity, particularly in terms of its intellectual legacies, but also to a renewed understanding of the cross-cultural interactions between China and Americaand a re-opening the dialogue and search for a new cultural understanding.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lin Yutang and China’s Search for Modern Rebirth
Authors: Qian Suoqiao
Series Title: Canon and World Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4657-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4656-8Published: 08 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5193-8Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4657-5Published: 20 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-7841
Series E-ISSN: 2662-785X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 475
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Chinese