LEADER 04164oam 22005054a 450 001 996347750103316 005 20210915044800.0 010 $a0-8248-7401-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780824874018 035 $a(CKB)3710000001127858 035 $a(DE-B1597)551422 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780824874018 035 $a(OCoLC)1158109680 035 $a(OCoLC)1103690521 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73506 035 $a(OCoLC)1016410133 035 $a(ScCtBLL)92919055-1262-487a-897e-59e6571a5523 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001127858 100 $a20041004d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBringing the World Home$eAppropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China /$fTheodore Huters 210 1$aHonolulu :$cUniversity of Hawai'i Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005. 215 $a1 online resource (364 p.) 311 $a0-8248-2838-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 335-361) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. China as Origin -- $tChapter 2. Appropriations: Another Look at Yan Fu and Western Ideas -- $tChapter 3. New Ways of Writing -- $tChapter 4. New Theories of the Novel -- $tChapter 5. Wu Jianren: Engaging the World -- $tChapter 6. Melding East and West: Wu Jianren?s New Story of the Stone -- $tChapter 7. Impossible Representations: Visions of China and the West in Flower in a Sea of Retribution -- $tChapter 8. The Contest over Universal Values -- $tChapter 9. Swimming against the Tide: The Shanghai of Zhu Shouju -- $tChapter 10. Lu Xun and the Crisis of Figuration -- $tAfterword -- $tNotes -- $tGlossary -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aBringing the World Home sheds new light on China?s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919?a crucial period that marks a watershed between the conservative old regime and the ostensibly iconoclastic New Culture of the 1920s. Although generally overlooked in the effort to understand modern Chinese history, the era has much to teach us about cultural accommodation and is characterized by its own unique intellectual life. This original and probing work traces the most significant strands of the new post-1895 discourse, concentrating on the anxieties inherent in a complicated process of cultural transformation. It focuses principally on how the need to accommodate the West was reflected in such landmark novels of the period as Wu Jianren?s Strange Events Eyewitnessed in the Past Twenty Years and Zhu Shouju?s Tides of the Huangpu, which began serial publication in Shanghai in 1916. The negative tone of these narratives contrasts sharply with the facile optimism that characterizes the many essays on the "New Novel" appearing in the popular press of the time. Neither iconoclasm nor the wholesale embrace of the new could square the contradicting intellectual demands imposed by the momentous alternatives presenting themselves.An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher. 606 $aChinese literature$y20th century$xWestern influences 606 $aChinese literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChinese literature$xWestern influences. 615 0$aChinese literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a895.1/09005 700 $aHuters$b Theodore$0299237 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996347750103316 996 $aBringing the World Home$92253418 997 $aUNISA