Baudelaire in China: A Study in Literary Reception by Gloria Bien (Paperback,...

Name: Baudelaire in China: A Study in Literary Reception by Gloria Bien (Paperback,...
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Baudelaire in ChinaA Study in Literary Reception\nAuthor(s): Gloria Bien\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: University of Delaware Press\nISBN-13: 9781611495645, 978-1611495645\nSynopsis\nBaudelaire's work entered China in the twentieth century amidst political and social upheavals accompanied by a \""literary revolution\"" that called for classical models and modes of expression to be replaced by vernacular language and contemporary content. Chinese writers welcomed their meeting with the West and openly embraced Western literature as providing models in developing their \""new\"" literature. Baudelaire's reception in China provides a representative study of this \""meeting of East and west.\"" His work, which has been declared to stand between tradition and modernity, also lies at the intersection between classical and modern literature in China. Many of the best known and most highly regarded writers in twentieth-century China were drawn to.