During his lifetime Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was among the most widely read German-language writers in
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Use of Characters and Romanization
1. Introduction: The Stefan Zweig Conundrum
PART ONE. Stefan Zweig and the Making of Modern China (1921–1949)
2. Introducing Zweig in Turbulent Times: From the New Culture Movement to Illegal Communist Propaganda
3. Zweig and the Chinese Love-Letter Fever: The Many Uses of Letter from an Unknown Woman in Republican China
PART TWO. Communist Rereadings of Stefan Zweig (1949–2013
4. The Antibourgeois Bourgeois Writer: The Rediscovery of Zweig in Communist China
5. The Ideal Woman? The “Zweig-Style Female Figures” in Post-Mao China
Outlook: Zweig on the Chinese Screen and Stage
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Terms
Bibliography
Index