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Transpacific community : America, China, and the rise and fall of a cultural network / Richard Jean So.
LIBRA PS221 .S63 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- So, Richard Jean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Comparative literature--American and Chinese.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--Chinese and American.
- American literature--Chinese influences.
- Chinese literature--American influences.
- United States--Relations--China.
- United States.
- Relations.
- China.
- China--Relations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 260 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the narrowing circle: America and China, circa 1929
- Chapter one. Long-distance realism: Agnes Smedley and the transpacific cultural front
- Chapter two. The good earth effect: Pearl Buck and natural democracy
- Chapter three. Pentatonic democracy: Paul Robeson and the black voice in Chinese
- Chapter four. Typographic ethnic modernism: Lin Yutang and the republican Chinaman
- Chapter five. Xuanchuan as world literature: Lao She and the uses of global propaganda
- Epilogue: the afterlife of failure: recentering Asian American and Chinese histories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231176965
- 0231176961
- OCLC:
- 923665589
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