TY - JOUR
T1 - Chinese modernist satire
T2 - Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son (1929), Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged (1947), and Eileen Chang’s Legends (1944)
AU - Liu, Yuexi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Bringing into dialogue modern Chinese literary studies and modernist studies, this essay examines what I call the Chinese modernist satires of Lao She, Qian Zhongshu, and Eileen Chang. Chinese modernism is here understood as plural in itself, encompassing multiple origins, times, influences, politics, and loci. Viewed as part of a global/planetary modernism, early-twentieth-century Chinese modernism was neither imported nor belated. Like the Anglo-American exterior modernists, who worked under the shadow of their formidable high modernist precursors, Lao She, Qian, and Chang belonged to the younger generation of Chinese modernists; Mr Ma and Son (1929), Fortress Besieged (1947), and the short stories collected in Legends (1944) contributed to a distinctive strand of Chinese modernism, which, comparable to the exterior modernism of their British and American counterparts, is focused on satire and comedy. Building connections between the three significant writers in modern Chinese literature, the essay also demonstrates a variety within their Chinese modernist satire.
AB - Bringing into dialogue modern Chinese literary studies and modernist studies, this essay examines what I call the Chinese modernist satires of Lao She, Qian Zhongshu, and Eileen Chang. Chinese modernism is here understood as plural in itself, encompassing multiple origins, times, influences, politics, and loci. Viewed as part of a global/planetary modernism, early-twentieth-century Chinese modernism was neither imported nor belated. Like the Anglo-American exterior modernists, who worked under the shadow of their formidable high modernist precursors, Lao She, Qian, and Chang belonged to the younger generation of Chinese modernists; Mr Ma and Son (1929), Fortress Besieged (1947), and the short stories collected in Legends (1944) contributed to a distinctive strand of Chinese modernism, which, comparable to the exterior modernism of their British and American counterparts, is focused on satire and comedy. Building connections between the three significant writers in modern Chinese literature, the essay also demonstrates a variety within their Chinese modernist satire.
KW - Chinese modernism
KW - comedy and satire
KW - comparative literary studies
KW - exterior modernism
KW - global/planetary modernisms
KW - race and gender
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85167413782&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2244460
DO - 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2244460
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85167413782
SN - 0950-236X
JO - Textual Practice
JF - Textual Practice
ER -