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.
Bringing the World Home fruitfully bridges the intellectual and literary history of the late Qing and early Republican era by showing how post–1919 radicalism—in an attempt to obscure the contributions made during the preceding period—obliterated an important legacy of cultural interaction and compromise that holds many lessons for the contemporary world.
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