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Cover illustration: Individuals pictured on the cover are as follows: Xiao Hong, Lady Eileen Chang, Ding Ling, Chairman Mao, Zhao Shuli, Wumingshi, When Hu Feng, Lu Ling. All pictures found in the public domain.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wang, Xiaoping, 1975– author.
Title: Contending for the “Chinese modern” : the writing of fiction in the great transformative epoch of modern China, 1937–1949 / by Wang Xiaoping.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] | Series: Ideas, history, and modern China, ISSN 1875-9394 ; volume 20 | Revision of author’s thesis (doctoral)—University of Texas at Austin, 2010. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019007608 (print) | LCCN 2019011391 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004398634 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004398627 (hardback :qalk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Chinese fiction—20th century—History and criticism. | Literature and society—China—History—20th century.
Classification: LCC PL2442 (ebook) | LCC PL2442 .W3657 2019 (print) | DDC 895.13/509—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019007608
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ISSN 1875-9394
ISBN 978-90-04-39862-7 (hardback)
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