
Young China
National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900–1959
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Kirjeldus
Since the last years of the Qing dynasty, youth has been made a new agent of history in Chinese intellectuals’ visions of national rejuvenation. Mingwei Song combines historical investigations of the origin and development of the modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman.
