Eileen Chang as “Global Modernist” and the Politics of World Literature

Julia Chan is Assistant Professor of English at Lingnan University, where she teaches and researches on transnational modernisms, the global Anglophone, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She has published in boundary 2, modernism/modernity, and Journal of Modern Literature. Her current book project, New Worlds for Old: Modernism, Utopia, and the Left, explores a politicized modernist literature that emerged as an aesthetic response to the circulation of “actually existing socialisms” in Soviet Russia, Europe, and East Asia.