In A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune, Haosheng Yang studies the classical-style poems of the most iconoclastic May Fourth Chinese writers and highlights the use of traditional language and forms as a salient facet of Chinese literary modernity.

Haosheng Yang, Ph.D. (Harvard, 2008), is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Miami University of Ohio. She specializes in late Qing, modern, and contemporary Chinese literature and culture and has published a number of articles in the field.