| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Theodore Huters. Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 370. $55.00.
In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Theodore Huters addresses problems of modern China in the transitional period from 1895 to 1919. Beginning with China's defeat by Japan and ending with the rise of the May Fourth cultural movement, this period is riddled with contradictions between old and new. In the throes of change, the millennial tradition seemed to be dying and the modern was yet to be born.	1
There are two advantages in focusing on this period. Its murky atmosphere highlights the tenacious persistence of the traditional past within the drive for modernization, challenging the conventional divide between the two along a linear timeline. Second, the period's intense intellectual debate opened up a floodgate of intellectual and literary creativity, giving rise to an early modern bloom of hundred flowers. In studies of history and literature, intellectual context is often treated like a backstage for mounting the work under scrutiny. What makes this book stand out is a managerial synthesis encompassing debates on literary theory, mutations of genres, recommendations of modernity, ideas of universalism, and, most importantly, close readings of key works of fiction.	. . .

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