Ross Forman demonstrates how integral China and the Chinese were to the Victorian imagination and reassesses British imperialism in Asia.
This work analyzes the collective significance of an array of figures of Chinese writing in Euro-American literature, showing how the ideograph becomes, in the modernist era, a prism through which to imagine the world in ethnographic and in technological terms.
The book introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into English verse to bring back to life past Chinese society as it developed from about 1000 B.C. to the form we see today. With China's increasing importance on the world …
Global Chinese literature: critical essays
by Tsu, Jing, Wang, Dewei
fromChinese overseas
Global Chinese literature: critical essays
by Wang, David Der-wei, Tsu, Jing
fromChinese overseas
