What is it about?
The book provides an in-depth study of the classical-style poems of the most iconoclastic May Fourth Chinese writers (Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Zhou Zuoren, Guo Moruo, and Nie Gannu) and highlights the five literary masters' engagement with traditional lyricism as their critical response to the sociopolitical turbulence of twentieth-century China.
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Why is it important?
This study challenges the bias against classical forms as allegedly outdated modes incapable of representing modern reality in current Chinese literary history.
Perspectives
The book positions modern Chinese literature's formalistic nonlinearity, representational experiences, and aspirations for a new voice through an old form as factors that are all crucial to exploring more fully the blurred boundary between the traditional and the modern.
Dr. Haosheng Yang
Miami University of Ohio
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This page is a summary of: A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune, March 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004310803.
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