TY - JOUR
T1 - WANG Xiaoping. Contending for the “Chinese Modern”: The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China 1937-1949. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019, 604 pp. = 王晓平：《追寻中国的"现代: : "多元变革时代"中国小说研究1937-1949》，莱顿/波士顿 : 荷兰博睿学术出版社, 2019年版, 604页。
AU - GONG, Haomin
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - Contending for the "Chinese Modern" is a welcome addition to the growing publications on modern Chinese fiction in English. In a way, it is a long-awaited book because, for one, no comprehensive book-length work on Chinese fiction in the critical period of 1937-1949, to the best of my knowledge, has been published in English; and more importantly, current discussion of modern Chinese fiction in English is dominated by what I would call “redemptive modern” discourses that try to write history out of discussion. Therefore, the author’s call for "historicization” is especially inspiring.
AB - Contending for the "Chinese Modern" is a welcome addition to the growing publications on modern Chinese fiction in English. In a way, it is a long-awaited book because, for one, no comprehensive book-length work on Chinese fiction in the critical period of 1937-1949, to the best of my knowledge, has been published in English; and more importantly, current discussion of modern Chinese fiction in English is dominated by what I would call “redemptive modern” discourses that try to write history out of discussion. Therefore, the author’s call for "historicization” is especially inspiring.
M3 - Review article
SN - 2096-4897
VL - 2
SP - 827
EP - 828
JO - International Comparative Literature
JF - International Comparative Literature
IS - 4
ER -