Seeing Through Abstraction
literary encounters with information in modern china
$213.60
- Hardcover
296 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2025
Summary
Seeing Through Abstraction: Literary Engagement with Information in Republican China
During the first half of the twentieth century, China experienced significant transformations in material conditions and communication practices, dramatically altering the volume, velocity, variety, veracity, and value of information. Confronted with the new abstract matter of information, a generation of Chinese writers grappled with a crisis of literary identity. They questioned what distinguished…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780231219891 |
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| ISBN-10: | 023121989X |
| Author: | Anatoly Detwyler |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Imprint: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Seeing Through Abstraction is a compelling and innovative work of scholarship, revealing for the first time the ways in which modern Chinese literature was ‘informed’ by the question of information. – Andrew F. Jones, author of Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s
About The Author
Anatoly Detwyler
Anatoly Detwyler is an assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a coeditor of Information: A Reader and Literary Information in China: A History, both published by Columbia University Press in 2021.
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