Yingjin Zhang (editor) - Companion to Modern Chinese Literature (Blackwell Companions to Litera) (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

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A companion to modern Chinese literature / edited by Yingjin Zhang.
pagescm
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-45162-5 (cloth)
1.Chinese literature20th centuryHistory and criticism.2.Chinese literature21st centuryHistory and criticism.I.Zhang, Yingjin, editor.
PL2303.C616 2016
895.109005dc23
2015014604

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Cover image: Zao Wou-Ki, Untitled, 2005. DACS 2015 / ProLitteris.

Mark Bender received his PhD in Chinese from Ohio State University, United States, where he is Professor of Chinese Literature and Folklore and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. He is the author of Plum and Bamboo (Illinois, 2003), a co-editor of The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature (Columbia, 2011), and a translator of Butterfly Mother (Hackett, 2006). His interests include traditional oral literature and folklore in several regions of China, and contemporary indigenous poetry in East Asia.

Yomi Braester received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University, United States, and is Professor of Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media at the University of Washington, Seattle, United States. He is the author of Witness against History (Stanford, 2003) and Painting the City Red (Duke, 2010), and a co-editor of Cinema at the Citys Edge (Hong Kong, 2010) and of a special issue on Taiwan cinema for Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (2003), in addition to other publications. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his forthcoming study of cinephilia in the PRC.

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang received her PhD in Asian Languages from Stanford University, United States, and is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin, United States. She is the author of Modernism and the Nativist Resistance (Duke, 1993) and Literary Culture in Taiwan (Columbia, 2004), and a co-editor of Bamboo Shoots after the Rain (Feminist Press, 1990) and Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan (Columbia, 2014), in addition to other publications.

Angie Chau