Ying Xiong is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University, China, where she specializes in modern East Asian literature and thought, global history, and world literature. She previously served as an associate researcher at the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and as a research fellow in the Department of History at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her publications include the book Representing Empire: Japanese Colonial Literature in Taiwan and Manchuria (2014) and many journal articles.

• Chapter 1.-Introduction.-World Literature and its Chinese Context.-Part I.-Competing Visions of the World.-Chapter 2.-New World Visions After WWI and the Rise of the Periphery.-3.-From the Periphery to the World.- Literary Mediation and Lu Xun’s Transformation of Writings on Love.-Part II .-An Alternative World Order.-From Passive Subject to Active Agent.- Translation and the Reinterpretation of the Opium War.-Chapter 5.-World Knowledge and Self-Education.-The Chinese Left-Wing Reinvention of Reportage.-Part III .-Allying with the “Third World”.-Chapter 6.-Literature for the Vulnerable.-Ding Ling and Pearl Buck’ s Writing of Chinese Peasants.-Chapter 7.-From Cultural Nationalism to Cultural Diplomacy.-Bing Xin’s Transnational Literary Journey.-Chapter 8.-Anti-colonialism and the Birth of Afro-Asian World Literature.-Epilogue.

Ying Xiong is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University, China, where she specializes in modern East Asian literature and thought, global history, and world literature. She previously served as an associate researcher at the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and as a research fellow in the Department of History at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her publications include the book Representing Empire: Japanese Colonial Literature in Taiwan and Manchuria (2014) and many journal articles.

• Chapter 1.-Introduction.-World Literature and its Chinese Context.-Part I.-Competing Visions of the World.-Chapter 2.-New World Visions After WWI and the Rise of the Periphery.-3.-From the Periphery to the World.- Literary Mediation and Lu Xun’s Transformation of Writings on Love.-Part II .-An Alternative World Order.-From Passive Subject to Active Agent.- Translation and the Reinterpretation of the Opium War.-Chapter 5.-World Knowledge and Self-Education.-The Chinese Left-Wing Reinvention of Reportage.-Part III .-Allying with the “Third World”.-Chapter 6.-Literature for the Vulnerable.-Ding Ling and Pearl Buck’ s Writing of Chinese Peasants.-Chapter 7.-From Cultural Nationalism to Cultural Diplomacy.-Bing Xin’s Transnational Literary Journey.-Chapter 8.-Anti-colonialism and the Birth of Afro-Asian World Literature.-Epilogue.

Ying Xiong is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University, China, where she specializes in modern East Asian literature and thought, global history, and world literature. She previously served as an associate researcher at the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and as a research fellow in the Department of History at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her publications include the book Representing Empire: Japanese Colonial Literature in Taiwan and Manchuria (2014) and many journal articles.

• Chapter 1.-Introduction.-World Literature and its Chinese Context.-Part I.-Competing Visions of the World.-Chapter 2.-New World Visions After WWI and the Rise of the Periphery.-3.-From the Periphery to the World.- Literary Mediation and Lu Xun’s Transformation of Writings on Love.-Part II .-An Alternative World Order.-From Passive Subject to Active Agent.- Translation and the Reinterpretation of the Opium War.-Chapter 5.-World Knowledge and Self-Education.-The Chinese Left-Wing Reinvention of Reportage.-Part III .-Allying with the “Third World”.-Chapter 6.-Literature for the Vulnerable.-Ding Ling and Pearl Buck’ s Writing of Chinese Peasants.-Chapter 7.-From Cultural Nationalism to Cultural Diplomacy.-Bing Xin’s Transnational Literary Journey.-Chapter 8.-Anti-colonialism and the Birth of Afro-Asian World Literature.-Epilogue.