ASIA 345 Modern Chinese Literature 当代中国文学

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In Chinese

This primary source is an opinion essay regarding certain aspects of literary reform in China; it is not a personal or historical account. It was originally written in the Xin Qingnian as part of New Culture Movement literature specifically to improve Chinese culture and literature.

The spectacular rise of China as a superpower perhaps only now compels us to recalibrate existing
discourses of empire and postcoloniality, but China has been an empire in the modern sense since the
mid–eighteenth century, when it conquered vast lands north and west of “China proper.”