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Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance bet
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What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Na
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world�
Failure, Nationalism, and Literature
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Global Chinese Literature
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This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regiona