1st Edition
Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China Modernism, Travel, and Form
Introduction
Part I
Borderlands
Frank Kingdon-Ward’s Deep Map: Charting Southwest China
On the Eaves of the World: Liminal Landscapes and the Writings of Reginald Farrer
Part II
Cosmopolitan Performances
Writing Lives in Emily Hahn’s China
Between the Lines: Reading Romance in Han Suyin’s Autofiction
Part III
Mobile Poetics
Harriet Monroe in China: Modern Poetry and the Open Door Policy
Ethnography and poetic method: Southwest China, Joseph Rock, and Ezra Pound’s "Drafts & Fragments"
Conclusion: ‘A Cycle of Cathay’
Biography
Jeffrey Mather is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. Originally from Canada, he completed his doctoral work at the University of Kent and has previously worked in academic positions in Taiwan and Mainland China. His work focuses on China/West literary studies, postcolonial writing, and modern and contemporary fiction.
