New Publication by VRS Alum Tamara Chin

Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination has just been published by Harvard University Press. Tamara Chin was a visiting research scholar at ISAW in 2008-09 and is now Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her new book examines how the expansion of Chinese power led to a dichotomy in literary expression. On the one side, a return to traditional values, classical texts, and an agricultural economy was espoused, and on the other, a forward-looking viewpoint utilizing new forms of fiction and genre to promote a quantitative market approach. At the center she explains how the collision of worlds and markets led to debates in Chinese literature that ultimately influenced Chinese political and economic thought. For more information, visit http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417199.