Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (ISSN # 1520-9857), formerly Modern Chinese Literature (1984-1998), is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal devoted to the culture of modern and contemporary China, with “China” understood not in the narrow, political sense.

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Thirty Years of Modern Chinese Literature was, David Wang writes in his introduction to the English edition of Wu’s History, “a landmark of the revisionist engagement of modern literary history” (xxxviii).

2021年7月6日 · Fan Boqun’s 范伯群 History of Modern Chinese Popular Literature is a comprehensive and sometimes quirky contribution to the study of a vast corpus of writing that has been overshadowed by literature associated with the May Fourth tradition.

2021年11月29日 · Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation is important because, first, it clarifies terms and concepts like Decadence that scholars in Chinese studies have been using indiscriminately for years without tracing its source and meaning.

2024年1月15日 · An Illustrated History of the Development of Modern Chinese Literature (插图本中国现代文学发展史), published in 2010 by Peking University Press, is the culmination of the life’s work of Wu Fuhui 吴福辉, who died January 15, 2021.

Volume 7, Number 2 (Fall 1993): SPECIAL ISSUE ON FILMING MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE (guest editor William S. Tay) Editor’s Remarks Sinifying and Popularizing Foreign Culture: From Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths to Huang Zuolin’s Ye dian.

Traditional, experimental, and avant-garde, The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories will reinvigorate the position of young Chinese writers as a major presence in contemporary literature. Their voices breathe new energy into modern Chinese literature, leaving the literary and societal stagnation of the Cultural Revolution behind as a distant memory.]

As a work of academic scholarship, there is little to commend Contending for the “Chinese Modern.” The volume starts by discussing several Western studies on modern Chinese literature, mostly finding them to be without merit.

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