Whitmanism, Imagism, and Modernism in China and America

This study deals with key players such as Whitman, Thoreau, Pound, Li Po, Lu Xun, and Guo Moruo in the cross-cultural transactions between America and China, though it also surveys other writers and political figures ranging from America to France to Russia to Latin America. The study demonstrates that cultures circulate despite cultural, political, historical, social, religious, geographical, and ethnographic differences, enabling the flow of ideas and infiltration of thoughts throughout the world - making the idea of "national literatures" obsolete while promoting literary and cultural studies across national boundaries.