Charles Forsdick is Lecturer in French, University of Glasgow

This is the first extensive study of Segalen's work to appear in English, and is inaugural in more senses than one: Charles Forsdick has produced an indispensable guide to the état présent of Segalen studies ... His painstaking depiction of Segalen's response to what he saw as the decline of cultural diversity, due to the forces of Western colonization, results in a generously informative work that offers a whole new archive of material for future Segalen critics.

• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION: VICTOR SEGALEN AND THE AESTHETICS OF DIVERSITY ; 1. Defining the Exotic: Exotcism as an Approach to Radical Diversity ; 2. Exoticism and Empire: Colonial Literature and Post-Colonial Critique ; 3. Polynesia and Difference ; 4. China and Alterity ; 5. Towards a New Practice of Exoticism ; CONCLUSION ; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Charles Forsdick is Lecturer in French, University of Glasgow

This is the first extensive study of Segalen's work to appear in English, and is inaugural in more senses than one: Charles Forsdick has produced an indispensable guide to the état présent of Segalen studies ... His painstaking depiction of Segalen's response to what he saw as the decline of cultural diversity, due to the forces of Western colonization, results in a generously informative work that offers a whole new archive of material for future Segalen critics.

• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION: VICTOR SEGALEN AND THE AESTHETICS OF DIVERSITY ; 1. Defining the Exotic: Exotcism as an Approach to Radical Diversity ; 2. Exoticism and Empire: Colonial Literature and Post-Colonial Critique ; 3. Polynesia and Difference ; 4. China and Alterity ; 5. Towards a New Practice of Exoticism ; CONCLUSION ; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Charles Forsdick is Lecturer in French, University of Glasgow

This is the first extensive study of Segalen's work to appear in English, and is inaugural in more senses than one: Charles Forsdick has produced an indispensable guide to the état présent of Segalen studies ... His painstaking depiction of Segalen's response to what he saw as the decline of cultural diversity, due to the forces of Western colonization, results in a generously informative work that offers a whole new archive of material for future Segalen critics.

• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION: VICTOR SEGALEN AND THE AESTHETICS OF DIVERSITY ; 1. Defining the Exotic: Exotcism as an Approach to Radical Diversity ; 2. Exoticism and Empire: Colonial Literature and Post-Colonial Critique ; 3. Polynesia and Difference ; 4. China and Alterity ; 5. Towards a New Practice of Exoticism ; CONCLUSION ; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX