A Review of Breaking Boundaries and"Making It New":Oriental Elements in Western Modernism by Qian Zhaoming
Professor Qian Zhaoming is acclaimed as"an excellent scholar-critic,"whose research"breaks genuinely new ground,"by Professor Marjorie Perloff,Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences,and is also extolled as"a gift"to his research filed by Professor Christine Froula,a renowned authority on modernist literary studies.The recently published Breaking Boundaries and"Making It New":Oriental Elements in Western Modernism by Professor Qian offers us a panoramic scanning of twenty-five excellent works by eleven modernist masters from eight different cultures,covering eleven realms of arts.This well-written book,born out of its author's more than thirty years'hard work,highlights the hidden close relationships between Western modernism and Oriental cultures,breaking boundaries of time,space and realms of arts,and making innovations in modernist theory based on solid evidence,critical methodologies and viewpoints.Hence it is undoubtedly a masterpiece in the field of international modernism research,especially on the century-long interaction between Western modernism and Oriental cultures(particularly Chinese culture),and its publication is of milestone significance.
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