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Author Huters, Theodore.

Title Bringing the world home : appropriating the West in late Qing and early Republican China / Theodore Huters.

Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2005.
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 McFarlin Books  PL2302 .H88 2005     AVAILABLE
Descript ix, 370 p. ; 24 cm.
Note Glossary also in Chinese.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt.1. Late Qing ideas. China as origin ; Appropriations: another look at Yan Fu and western ideas ; New ways of writing ; New theories of the novel. -- Pt. 2. Late Qing novels. Wu Jianren: engaging the world ; Melding East and West: Wu Jianren's New story of the stone ; Impossible representations: visions of China and the West in Flower in a sea of retribution. -- Pt. 3. The new republic. The contest over universal values ; Swimming against the tide: the Shanghai of Zhu Shouju ; Lu Xun and the crisis of figuration.
Subject Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chinese literature -- 20th century -- Western influences.
ISBN 0824828380 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780824828387 (hardcover : alk. paper)