It is generally believed that Mao Zedong’s populism was an abrupt departure from traditional Chinese thought. This study demonstrates that many of its key concepts had been developed several decades earlier by young May Fourth intellectuals, including Liu Fu, Zhou Zuoren, and Gu Jiegang. The Chinese folk-literature movement, begun at National Beijing University in 1918, changed...(展开全部)

One of the most striking phenomena in the recent history of China is the large number of Chinese youths who went abroad to study. Each year, from the beginning of this century, hun­ dreds and then thousands of young men and women broke away from the confines of their own culture and immersed themselves for a few years of study in the modernizing worlds of Japan, the United Stat...(展开全部)

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)

In the west, the idea of autonomy is often associated with a sense of freedom – a self-interested state of being unfettered by rules or obligations to others. This original anthropological study explores a type of “obedient” autonomy that thrives on setbacks, blossoms as more rules are imposed, and flourishes in adversity. Obedient Autonomy analyzes this model, and explains its...(展开全部)

作者普实克（1906－1980），欧洲最负盛名的中国文学与文化学者，前捷克斯洛伐克科学院院士，东方研究所所长。他所领导的东方研究所曾是二十世纪五六十年代欧洲最有成就的中国文学研究中心。六十年代初，他和美国夏志清教授关于后者所著《中国现代小说史》的讨论，曾在欧美引起很大反 响。 编者李欧梵，台湾大学外文系毕业，美国哈佛大学博士，香港科技大学人文荣誉博士。现为哈佛大学东亚系荣休教授，香港中文大学讲座教授，“中央研究院”院士，曾任教于普林斯顿大学、印第安纳大学、芝加哥大学、香港科技大学、哈佛大学等著名学府。主要著述包括：《铁屋中的呐喊》、《中国现代作家的浪漫一代》、《西潮的彼岸》、《中西文学的徊想》、《狐狸洞话语》、《现代性的追求》、《上海摩登》、《我的哈佛岁月》等二十多种，并出版有小说《范柳原忏情录》和《东方猎手》。 译者郭建玲，浙江金华人。二〇〇七年毕...(展开全部)

China has one of the longest continuous literary traditions in the world. From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing, both as an instrument of the state and as a medium for culture outside the state. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and ...(展开全部)

China has one of the longest continuous literary traditions in the world. From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing, both as an instrument of the state and as a medium for culture outside the state. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and ...(展开全部)

It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a turning point in the intellectual, spiritual, cultural and political life of twentieth-century China.