{"id":3874,"date":"2017-10-11T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2017-10-09T22:41:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:41:59","slug":"goodman-on-wangs-new-literary-history-of-modern-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3874","title":{"rendered":"Goodman on Wang’s New Literary History of Modern China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The new “China Channel” of the LA Review of Books<\/em> has published Eleanor Goodman’s review of A New Literary History of Modern China<\/em><\/a>, edited by David Der-Wei Wang \u738b\u5fb7\u5a01. An enthusiastic review, Goodman writes:<\/p>\n

one theme of the book is the importance of inclusivity, exchange, and communication to understanding trends not just in literature, but in global affairs. Many of the writers under discussion here spent time outside of China, particularly in Japan, Europe, and the United States, or are impressively well read in foreign literatures. These essays address works that have been translated from Chinese into other languages, or works in other languages that have been translated into Chinese. Implicit in their juxtaposition, then, is also a picture of geopolitics and global history. These lines of communication were largely severed during the years of the Cultural Revolution; the essays from this period turn inward and are necessarily more political. In contrast, the essays engaging with the outward-looking years around the turns of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries demonstrate just how fundamental literature and art are to a mutually intelligible and diverse world culture. It becomes clear reading this book that one can trace the larger history of China itself across the twentieth century by looking at its literature and its writers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And for mentions of specific entries:<\/p>\n

Carlos Rojas writes engagingly of the \u201cissues of gender and gender inversion\u201d at stake in the power dynamics displayed in a novel of the early 1800s. Amy Dooling describes the \u201cpublishing sensation that unequivocally established the commercial potential of \u2018the woman writer\u2019,\u201d a phenomenon that is a close cousin to \u2013 if not a progenitor of \u2013 the contemporary \u201cbeautiful woman writers\u201d who today proliferate on the shelves of Chinese bookstores with their airbrushed large-eyed portraits. Maghiel van Crevel presents a powerful examination of a \u201c\u2018cult\u2019 of poetry\u201d that romanticizes suicide among its members, the effects of which can still be seen in more recent examples like the tragic suicide of the Foxconn factory worker and poet Xu Lizhi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

Enjoy science fiction? Mingwei Song\u2019s terrific piece on a \u201cposthuman future\u201d and contemporary Chinese sci-fi will fascinate. You want rock and roll? Read Ao Wang\u2019s rollicking insider\u2019s take on the \u201cGodfather of Chinese rock \u2018n roll,\u201d the irreverent and fascinating Cui Jian. In this meticulously edited and selected anthology, there really is something for everyone. All you have to do is look.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click on the image above for the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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