This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the vernacular in modern China but also on the critical role of the rise of the vernacular in world literature, invoking parallel cases from countries throughout Europe and Asia.

Autorentext
GANG ZHOU Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at Louisiana State University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction The Language of Utopia The Chinese Renaissance The Shaky House 'The Vernacular Only' Writing Mode Epilogue