Publisher:
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, N.J.
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EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA
Cosmopolitan Publics focuses on China's "cosmopolitans"--Western-educated intellectuals who returned to Shanghai in the late 1920s to publish in English and who, ultimately, became both cultural translators and citizens of the wider world. Shuang...
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Cosmopolitan Publics focuses on China's "cosmopolitans"--Western-educated intellectuals who returned to Shanghai in the late 1920s to publish in English and who, ultimately, became both cultural translators and citizens of the wider world. Shuang Shen highlights their work in publications such as The China Critic and T'ien Hsia, providing readers with a broader understanding of the role and function of cultural mixing, translation, and multilingualism in China's cultural modernity.