Transpacific Community

America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-17696-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

In the turbulent years after World War I, the American novelist Pearl S. Buck, the African American singer and activist Paul Robeson, the left-wing journalist Agnes Smedley, and the Chinese authors Lao She and Lin Yutang sought to transform the terms by which the United States and China or, more broadly, "East" and "West" knew each other. Individually, they produced works that altered American conceptions of China and vice versa. Together, they collaborated on political projects that synthesized American and Chinese visions of equality. Their network drew from radical visions of political revolution and new technologies of communication. Their transpacific community upset traditional routes of power and articulated a new course for East-West cultural exchange.

Autoren/Hrsg.

So, Richard Jean

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Narrowing Circle: America and China Circa 19291. Long-Distance Realism: Agnes Smedley and the Transpacific Cultural Front2. The Good Earth Effect: Pearl Buck and Natural Democracy3. Pentatonic Democracy: Paul Robeson and the Black Voice in Chinese4. Typographic Ethnic Modernism: Lin Yutang and the Republican Chinaman5. Xuanchuan as World Literature: Lao She and the Uses of Global PropagandaEpilogue: The Afterlife of Failure: Recentering Asian American and Chinese HistoriesNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Jean So is assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. He specializes in modern American, Chinese, and Asian-American literatures, and his work has appeared in Representations, Critical Inquiry, PMLA, American Literature, boundary 2, among other publications.