China's Literary Cosmopolitans : Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, and the World of Letters.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: All the World's a Book -- Chapter 1 Yang Jiang's Wartime Comedies -- Or, The Serious Business of Marriage -- Chapter 2 "Passing Handan without Dreaming": Passion and Restraint in the Poetry and Poetics of Qian Zhongshu -- Chapter 3 Self-Deception and Self-Knowledge in Yang Jiang's Fiction -- Chapter 4 How to Do Things with Words: Yang Jiang and the Politics of Translation -- Chapter 5 Guanzhui bian, Western Citations, and the Cultural Revolution -- Chapter 6 The Pleasures of Lying Low: Yang Jiang and Chinese Revolutionary Culture -- Chapter 7 The Institutional Mindset: Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang on Marriage and the Academy -- Chapter 8 "All Alone, I Think Back on We Three": Yang Jiang's New Intimate Public -- Chapter 9 The Cosmopolitan Imperative: Qian Zhongshu and "World Literature" -- Epilogue: All Will Come Out in the Washing -- Appendix: Works in English by Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang -- Bibliography -- Index.

China's Literary Cosmopolitans offers a comprehensive introduction to the intertwined literary careers of Qian Zhongshu (1910-98) and Yang Jiang (b. 1911) and explains why they have come to represent compelling models of Chinese-centric literary cosmopolitanism.

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