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A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific PDF

286 Pages·2016·0.828125 MB·English
by  Hua Hsu
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by Hua Hsu| 2016| 286 pages| 0.828125| English

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Who gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward barbarous China yielded to a fascination with all things Chinese, a circle of writers sparked an unprecedented public conversation about American-Chinese relations. Hua Hsu tells the story of how they became ensnared in bitter rivalries over which one could claim the title of America s leading China expert.The rapturous reception that greeted and “The Good Earth and ” Pearl Buck s novel about a Chinese peasant family spawned a literary market for sympathetic writings about China. Stories of enterprising Americans making their way in a land with four hundred million customers, as Carl Crow said, found an eager audience as well. But on the margins in Chinatowns, on Ellis Island, and inside FBI surveillance memos a different conversation about the possibilities of a shared future was taking place. and “A Floating Chinaman and ” takes its title from a lost manuscript by H. T. Tsiang, an eccentric Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels during this time. Tsiang discovered the American literary market to be far less accommodating to his more skeptical view of U.S.-China relations. His floating Chinaman, unmoored and in-between, imagines a critical vantage point from which to understand the new ideas of China circulating between the world wars and today, as well. and “

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Author:Hua Hsu
Publication Year:2016
ISBN:9780674967908
Pages:286
Language:English
File Size:0.828125
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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