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In A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune , Haosheng Yang 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. This study challenges the bias against classical forms as allegedly outdated modes incapable of representing modern reality in current Chinese literary history. Yang's fascinating book positions modern Chinese literature's formalistic nonlinearity, representational experiences, and aspiration 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

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Author

Haosheng Yang

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004310803

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Short Stories, History, Literary Fiction