American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter

This edition documents the growth of interest in modernist and contemporary American poetry by scholars both inside and outside China. While the tradition of Asian-American literature and criticism is well-established, there has been less exposure to how China-based critics have viewed the increasing popularity of canonical and emerging American poetry. The volume uses a variety of approaches to argue a central themethat the 'encounter' of American poetry with contemporary Chinese modernity is occasioning a radical refashioning of not only American perspectives on Chinese culture and values but of the impact of Western values upon the Chinese worldview.

Zhang Yuejun is a professor of English at Central South University. His research experience includes a Fulbright research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania (2011-2012) and an appointment at the University of California at Berkeley as a Visiting Scholar (2002-2003). He is the author of In the American Grain: The Pragmatist Poetics of William Carlos Williams and numerous essays on Anglo-American literature and literary criticism in mainland China and Taiwan.

Stuart Christie is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of two books, Worlding Forster: The Passage from Pastoral and Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature and his articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, PMLA, and Foreign Literature Studies among others.