Like many of her contemporaries, Marianne Moore became fascinated by all things Chinese as a young adult and sought to incorporate Chinese imagery, ideals, and philosophy into her own work.

Xiamara Hohman on Mei Lanfang’s effect on Marianne Moore

The best way to show students how the term “modernity” is wielded in this way is to highlight the variety of lifestyles that exist parallel to each other in the same era…

Gina Elia responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

Episode 2.2 of the Genealogies of Modernity podcast is live!

Through the guise of hypotheticals and future realities, authors of the genre can critique current conditions and disseminate their ideas to a broad, sometimes international, audience.

Andrew Latham and Erica Paley on Chinese science fiction

Official efforts to promote science fiction in support of national rejuvenation have the perverse effect of encouraging a genre that is shot through with powerful anti-totalitarian tropes.

Andrew Latham and Erica Paley on Chinese science fiction

Hai Zi was a poet dedicated to an attempt to create a mythology of modernity; a poet as obsessed with the origins of modernity as he was with the challenge of reforging it.

Jake Grefenstette and poetic genealogies of Chinese modernity

Su Xuelin's novel Thorny Heart is a reminder of the freedom with which different Chinese communities decided what could be counted as “modern” or as “traditional.”

Gina Elia examines the relations of modernity, religion, and tradition in early 20th Century China