Transpacific community : America, China and the rise and fall of a cultural network / Richard Jean So.

Author/creator So, Richard Jean
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Descriptionxxxix, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Chinese literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Comparative literature--American and Chinese.
Comparative literature--Chinese and American.
American literature--Chinese influences.
Chinese literature--American influences.
United States--Relations. --China.
China--Relations. --United States.

Contents Introduction: the narrowing circle: America and China, circa 1929 -- Long-distance realism: Agnes Smedley and the transpacific cultural front -- The good earth effect: Pearl Buck and natural democracy -- Pentatonic democracy: Paul Robeson and the black voice in Chinese -- Typographic ethnic modernism: Lin Yutang and the republican Chinaman -- Xuanchuan as world literature: Lao She and the uses of global propaganda -- Epilogue: the afterlife of failure: recentering Asian American and Chinese histories.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-246) and index.
LCCN 2015036432
ISBN9780231176965 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0231176961 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40026188980

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS221 .S63 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold