Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity - Peng, Hsiao-yen

Views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. This book contends that modernity is possible only on 'the transcultural site' - transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between elite and popular, literary and non-literary, and inside and outside.