Rethinking the modern Chinese canon

"This book is intended for scholars of modern Chinese and Sinophone literature. It will also appeal more broadly to scholars of translation studies and comparative literature and may also be useful to scholars and students of American and Asian American literature and history as well. The principal Chinese authors discussed here--Lao She, Zhang Ailing, Xiao Hong, Yu Dafu, --are canonical authors of modern Chinese literature who have been translated into English and are frequently taught in graduate and undergraduate courses, making this book a strong complementary resource. Sato Haruo is a well-known figure in Japanese literature and the discussion of his interaction with Chinese writers in this book will complement the scholarship on his literature on colonial Taiwan. The discussion of the works of Agnes Smedley and Helen Foster Snow make this study of interest as well to those interested in the history of the American left or Sino-American literary interactions"--