![]() ![]() It is about the creation and refinement of those ideas, as well as the spirit of competition that underlies all critical endeavors. The book is about the circulation of ideas about China but it is also a book about writers, rivalries, and the acquisition of authority. On the margins-in Chinatowns, on college campuses, in the failed avant-gardism of Tsiang-a different conversation about the possibilities of a transpacific future was taking place. ![]() At this time the United States "rediscovered" China, and the book traces its causes and cues in a variety of sites: the comfortable, middlebrow literature of Pearl Buck, Alice Tisdale Hobart and Lin Yutang the journalism of Carl Crow and Henry Luce exuberant reports from oil executives proclaiming a new era in global trade. Tsiang, a Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels in the 1930s, a time when China was recast as a rich, unexplored mystery to the American public. The title is taken from a lost manuscript by H.T. "A Floating Chinaman is, in the broadest sense, a book about who gets to speak for China. ![]() Tsiang, a Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels in the 1930s, a time when C. ![]()
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