ABSTRACT
Global modernisms are marked by tremendous transformations in lifestyle, historical consciousness, cultural values, ethics, wars, and crises. This book emphasizes modernist connections within literature, culture, history, and media beyond the nation state and the bifurcation between East and West. Instead of deconstructing and separating, Composing Modernist Connections in China and Europe composes and forges new combinations, linkages, and translations that place Chinese and European modernisms on an equal footing. This book features contributions on James Joyce, Stefan George, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Anna Seghers, Qian Zhongshu, Weimar labor modernism, Chinese wartime literature, Chinese movies in divided Germany, and Sinophone modernity among other subjects.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|60 pages
Chinese-German Literary Connections
chapter 1|21 pages
Luo Binji’s Spring in Beiwang Garden
chapter 3|20 pages
Internationalist Montages
part II|50 pages
European Connections
chapter 5|23 pages
Hedging the Particular, Hedging the Universal
part III|48 pages
Filmic and Sinophone Connections