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'On the Horizon of World Literature' compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by 'world literature' as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided - and continues to provide - a condition of possibility for conversation between cultures as well as for their mutual provincialization. The book offers readings of a selection of literary forms that serve also as textual sites for the enactment of new socio-political forms of life.

Literature --- Civilization, Modern, in literature. --- Comparative literature --- Philosophy. --- English and Chinese. --- Chinese and English.

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This book combines two collections of essays written by the late professor Zuoliang Wang, works that explore the affinity between literatures and peoples, with special attention given to that between Chinese literature and western literature in the 20th century, and which underscore the role of translation therein. Both collections have been previously published in book form: Degrees of Affinity—Studies in Comparative Literature (1985) and A Sense of Beginning—Studies in Literature and Translation (1991).   As a prominent literary critic, literary historian, translator and 20th-century Chinese poet, Wang has played a unique part in English education in China. His research interests range widely, from English literature through comparative literature to translation and cultural studies, fields in which he has made outstanding accomplishments. Wang pioneered the concept of “affinity” in talking about interactions between literatures and peoples, which has since won great acclaim from both critics and common readers at home and abroad. As he points out, “momentous changes often occur when a foreign literature satisfies a sore need of an indigenous literature, thus developing a strong affinity...” And translation can fulfill a crucial role in bringing about affinity between literatures and peoples. According to Professor Wang, “Nothing is more crucial in cultural contacts, not to say cultural interactions, than translation, particularly in a country that for long periods closed its doors to the outside world, like China.”.

Linguistics. --- Comparative Literature. --- Linguistique --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. --- Comparative literature -- Chinese and English. --- Comparative literature -- English and Chinese. --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Comparative literature --- English and Chinese. --- Chinese and English. --- Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- History and criticism

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Chinese poetry --- Romanticism --- Comparative literature --- English poetry --- Sublime, The, in literature. --- Chinese literature --- English influences. --- Chinese and English. --- English and Chinese. --- History and criticism.

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The book explores the coming-of-age fiction of two of the most critically acclaimed and frequently translated contemporary Chinese authors, Yu Hua and Su Tong; it is the first in-depth book-length treatise in English about the contemporary Chinese Bildungsroman . Although various individual contemporary Chinese novelists and individual works of Chinese fiction have previously been discussed under the rubric of the Bildungsroman , none of these efforts has approached the level of comprehensive and comparative analysis that this book brings to the genre and its social contexts in contemporary China. This book will pique the interests not only of scholars and students of Chinese and comparative literature, but also of historians and social scientists with an interest in the region.

Bildungsromans --- Chinese fiction --- Comparative literature --- Group identity in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Youth in literature. --- Bildungsroman --- History and criticism. --- Chinese and English. --- English and Chinese. --- Su, Tong, --- Yu, Hua,

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S16/0170 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature --- Bildungsromans --- Chinese fiction --- Comparative literature --- Group identity in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Youth in literature --- Bildungsroman --- History and criticism --- Chinese and English --- English and Chinese --- Su, Tong, --- Yu, Hua,