How a hundred years of linguistic innovation turned China into one of the most powerful countries of the modern eraAfter a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just
Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages
The rhetoric of national or racial failure, argues Tsu (a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows), has at various times in Chinese history been transformed into constructions of discourses of
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s looks at the transnational routes for the development of science and technology in the first pivotal decades of modern China.
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s looks at the transnational routes for the development of science and technology in the first pivotal decades of modern China.
Presenting an array of cutting edge perspectives on modern Chinese literature in different Sinophone contexts, this volume of essays offers a wide range of critical approaches to the study of an emerg
This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and global analyses. Each of t
