Modern Chinese Literary Thought

This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China."This volume may be recommended as a comprehensive collection that helps readers understand the important cultural context of the liteary texts produced in China in the first half of the 20th century. The 32 translators have produced smooth and accurate rendering of 55 essays, most of which are here anthologized for the first time in English."