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Chinese literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- S16/0170 --- S16/0195 --- History and criticism --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies

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This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy. It focuses on the revival of literary best sellers in the Chinese book market and the establishment of a best-seller production machine. The author examines how writers have become cultural entrepreneurs, how state publishing houses are now motivated by commercial incentives, and how “second-channel,” unofficial publishers and distributors both compete and cooperate with official publishing houses in a dual-track, socialist-capitalist economic system. Taken together, these changes demonstrate how economic development and culture interact in a postsocialist society, in contrast to the way they work in the mature capitalist economies of the West. That economic reforms have affected many aspects of Chinese society is well known, but this is the first comprehensive analysis of market influences in the literary field. This book thus offers a fresh perspective on the inner workings of contemporary Chinese society.

Publishers and publishing --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Book sales --- Book industries and trade --- S01/0600 --- S16/0170 --- China: Bibliography and reference--Books, printing, editing and paper --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature --- Book dealers --- Dealers, Book

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Bringing 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.

Chinese literature --- Western influences. --- History and criticism. --- S02/0300 --- S02/0310 --- S16/0170 --- S16/0700 --- History and criticism --- Western influences --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the West and vice-versa --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Comparative literature --- Littérature chinoise --- Histoire et critique --- Influence occidentale --- Literature --- China --- History of China --- Lu Xun --- Qing dynasty --- Shanghai --- Western culture --- Western world --- Yan Fu