RESEARCH

Douwe Fokkema's research and publication activities can be divided into four main fields:

1. General literary studies and literary history

2. Modern Chinese literature and culture

3. General cultural studies

4. Creative writing

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In his latest studies he focussed on the role of conventions in literary communication; on the social and political effects of reading fiction; and, in particular, on cross-cultural intertextuality in utopian and dystopian fiction.