In his latest monograph, Dreams in Chinese Fiction: Spiritism, Aestheticism, and Nationalism (Routledge, 2025), Johannes Kaminski examines the modern political concept of the “Chinese Dream” through the lens of dream representations in Chinese literary tradition—from ancient times to the present day. What range of meanings and forms do dreams take in Chinese literary and philosophical texts? And how does the traditional understanding of dreams evolve at the turn of the 20th century?

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