The Chinese Comparatist online

In its earliest days, the Association of Chinese & Comparative Literature (then the American Chapter of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association) published the journal, The Chinese Comparatist. As the ACCL house journal, The Chinese Comparatist was edited and printed by the late Wu Beiling, and published three issues between 1987 and 1989, before its untimely demise.

The journal is not widely available in library collections today. To make it more accessible, the ACCL has partnered with Penn State University Libraries to digitize the issues for open access.

So if you want to (re-)read Liu Kang’s essay, “Storyteller and Ideologeme: Some Aspects of Discourse in Classical Chinese Fiction,” or Zhang Yingjin on “Fetishism and Faddism: Manifestations of Literature as Commodity in Contemporary China,” or Eugene Eoyang’s “Still Life in Words: The Art of Li Ch’ing-Chao”—and many more—then go to the link below:

https://libraries.psu.edu/about/collections/chinese-comparatist

With best regards,

Nico Volland (ACCL President)

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