Description: Comparative study of contemporary nativist literary and cultural movements in China and Taiwan.
Brief description: Ming-yan Lai is Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Review Quotes:
"Nativism and Modernity rescues nativism from the usual charges of nationalism and regionalism (while making careful distinctions between the terms), and explicates its many promises and limits in a judicious manner. The book makes an important contribution to the study of nativism and will go a long way in dispelling simplistic misconceptions of the intellectual and literary formation known as nativism." -- Shu-mei Shih, author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937