MODERNISM.

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T'ien Hsia Monthly. The first four volumes of China's answer to The Criterion, including contributions by leading members of the modern movement in China and the West. The editors - among them Lin Yutang, the doyen of Chinese literary criticism - believed in a global modernism that incorporated, but was not limited by, European visions. Each number typically contained original articles, literary translations, and reviews of domestic and overseas publications. The editors launched Volume I, Number I, with a foreword by Sun Fo (the son of Sun Yat-Sen) and articles offering readers previously unpublished D. H. Lawrence letters and two Chinese poems translated by Harold Acton and Chen Shih-Hsiang. Across this run, some other contributors include Arthur Waley, Lin Yutang, Julian Bell, Emily Hahn, Chen Shouyi, and Yone Noguchi. Each number's book review section addressed a broad spectrum of intellectual trends: among the many thinkers reviewed in these volumes are H. G. Wells, Leonard Woolf, Waley, Rabindranath Tagore, Chiang Yee, Bertrand Russell, W. H. Auden, Margaret Mitchell, and Alan Watts.T'ien Hsia expressed post-imperial China's outward-looking literary and artistic creativity and cultural openness. One of Lin's editorial colleagues was John C. H. Wu, an American-educated lawyer who helped draft China's first national constitution. They published ten issues per year until 1941, when wartime conditions necessitated the halving of this figure. Copies were sold individually, b

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