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Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

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Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with a rich and varied range of themes and styles. It has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world and has contributed to the wealth of literary culture of the entire world. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature provides a comprehensive overview of the development and history of literature in modern China, with a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries.

Format: Hardback
Length: 824 pages
Publication date: 15 January 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield


Modern Chinese literature has been a vibrant and dynamic force for over a century, with its themes and styles ranging from revolutionary to pastoral, romanticism to feminism, modernism to post-modernism, critical realism to psychological realism, socialist realism to magical realism. It has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world, contributing to the wealth of literary culture of the entire world. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the development and history of literature in modern China, offering a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.

Weight: 1506g
Dimension: 229 x 160 x 55 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538130056
Edition number: Second Edition

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