Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had li
Two languages—German and Romanian—inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Muller. Describing her writing as “autofictional,” Muller depicts the effects of violence, cruel
From a June 1996 interdisciplinary conference in New York, 19 selected papers reflect three currents in Netherlandic Studies: the traditional study of the language, literature and history; the cultura
