Description:
A valuable study for those engaged in charting the transformation of Chinese culture and society over the last 150 years and considering what those transformations might hold for the future.
Brief description: Theodore Huters is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at UCLA and editor of the translation journal Renditions, the leading international journal of Chinese literature in English translation. He holds a PhD from Stanford University. Professor Huters's publications include Qian Zhongshu, Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China, as well as many articles on modern and late traditional Chinese culture, and numerous translations of the work of important contemporary Chinese intellectuals.