Chinese studies

Together with its companion volume, this text tells the story of Chinese writing as an instrument of the state and as a medium for culture.

The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and fiction, but also historical writing and other prose forms.

From language to music, literature to popular culture, minority politics to internal diaspora, theories of sinography to China's quest for the Nobel Prize, this volume brings together leading and new voices in the study of Chinese literature from a variety of comparative and intra-national perspectives.

This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. It reviews major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English and brings attention to previously neglected, important areas, such as late Qing, Sinophone, and ethnic minority literature.