Eileen Chang

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Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083791
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Eileen Chang by : Kam Louie

Download or read book Eileen Chang written by Kam Louie and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eileen Chang (1920–1995) is arguably the most perceptive writer in modern Chinese literature. She was one of the most popular writers in 1940s Shanghai, but her insistence on writing about individual human relationships and mundane matters rather than revolutionary and political movements meant that in mainland China, she was neglected until very recently. Outside the mainland, her life and writings never ceased to fascinate Chinese readers. There are hundreds of works about her in the Chinese language but very few in other languages. This is the first work in English to explore her earliest short stories as well as novels that were published posthumously. It discusses the translation of her stories for film and stage presentation, as well as nonliterary aspects of her life that are essential for a more comprehensive understanding of her writings, including her intense concern for privacy and enduring sensitivity to her public image. The thirteen essays examine the fidelity and betrayals that dominate her alter ego's relationships with parents and lovers, informed by theories and methodologies from a range of disciplines including literary, historical, gender, and film studies. These relationships are frequently dramatized in plays and filmic translations of her work.

Chinese Poets Since 1949

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ISBN 13 : 9781410395986
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (959 download)

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Book Synopsis Chinese Poets Since 1949 by : Christopher Lupke

Download or read book Chinese Poets Since 1949 written by Christopher Lupke and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents biographical entries on a range of contemporary poets that have made significant contributions to the literary culture of China since 1949.

The Explosion Chronicles

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Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802190014
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis The Explosion Chronicles by : Yan Lianke

Download or read book The Explosion Chronicles written by Yan Lianke and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rip-roaring Swiftian satire from a contemporary Chinese master” follows a rural community’s transformation from small village to megalopolis (The Economist). With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a millennium ago by refugees fleeing a seismic volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era the name takes on a new significance as the community grows explosively from a small village to a vast metropolis. Behind this rapid expansion are members of the community’s three major families, including the four Kong brothers; Zhu Ying, the daughter of the former village chief; and Cheng Qing, who starts out as a secretary and goes on to become a powerful political and business figure. Linked together by a complex web of loyalty, betrayal, desire, and ambition, these figures are the driving force behind their hometown’s transformation into an urban superpower. Brimming with absurdity, intelligence, and wit, The Explosion Chronicles considers the high stakes of passion and power, the consequences of corruption and greed, the polarizing dynamics of love and hate between families, as well as humankind’s resourcefulness through the vicissitudes of life. “Yan’s burlesque of a nation driven insane by money is equally a satire of some of the excesses of the Chinese Revolution.” —The Wall Street Journal

Feminism/femininity in Chinese Literature

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042007277
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Feminism/femininity in Chinese Literature by : Huihua Chen

Download or read book Feminism/femininity in Chinese Literature written by Huihua Chen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume of Critical Studies is a collection of selected essays on the topic of feminism and femininity in Chinese literature. Although feminism has been a hot topic in Chinese literary circles in recent years, this remarkable collection represents one of the first of its kind to be published in English. The essays have been written by well-known scholars and feminists including Kang-I Sun Chang of Yale University, and Li Ziyun, a writer and feminist in Shanghai, China. The essays are inter- and multi-disciplinary, covering several historical periods in poetry and fiction (from the Ming-Qing periods to the twentieth century). In particular, the development of women s writing in the New Period (post-1976) is examined in depth. The articles thus offer the reader a composite and broad perspective of feminism and the treatment of the female in Chinese literature. As this remarkable new collection attests, the voices of women in China have begun calling out loudly, in ways that challenge prevalent views about the Chinese female persona."

Notes of a Desolate Man

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231500081
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Notes of a Desolate Man by : T’ien-wen Chu

Download or read book Notes of a Desolate Man written by T’ien-wen Chu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao's risky lifestyle, radical political activism, and eventual death; the fragility of romantic love; the awesome power of eros; the solace of writing; the cold ennui of a younger generation enthralled only by video games; and life on the edge of mainstream Taiwanese society. His feverish journey through forests of metaphor and allusion—from Fellini and Lévi-Strauss to classical Chinese poetry—serves as a litany protecting him from the ravages of time and finitude. Impressive in scope and detail, Notes of a Desolate Man employs the motif of its characters' marginalized sexuality to highlight Taiwan's vivid and fragile existence on the periphery of mainland China. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin's masterful translation brings Chu T'ien-wen's lyrical and inventive pastiche of political, poetic, and sexual desire to the English-speaking world.

Dream of Ding Village

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Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802195962
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Dream of Ding Village by : Yan Lianke

Download or read book Dream of Ding Village written by Yan Lianke and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliant and harrowing novel” about a deadly epidemic fueled by corruption, based on real-life events in China (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, Dream of Ding Village is based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China. The novel is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a small village decimated by HIV/AIDS as a result of unregulated blood selling. Whole villages were wiped out with no responsibility taken or reparations paid. Dream of Ding Village focuses on one family, destroyed when one son rises to the top of the party pile as he exploits the situation, while another son is infected and dies. The result is a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which China is developing and what happens to those who get in the way. “Lianke confronts the black market blood trade and the subsequent AIDS epidemic it sparked, in a brilliant and harrowing novel.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230610145
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry by : C. Lupke

Download or read book New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry written by C. Lupke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together fresh research from experts on contemporary Chinese poetry, built upon one of the most glorious poetic traditions of any civilization in the world yet historically neglected by scholars in English. This comprehensive volume offers readable and provocative treatments of many of the most important Chinese poets of our age.

Chinese Fiction Writers, 1950-2000

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Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 : 9780787696450
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (964 download)

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Book Synopsis Chinese Fiction Writers, 1950-2000 by : Thomas Moran

Download or read book Chinese Fiction Writers, 1950-2000 written by Thomas Moran and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bio-bibliographical guide covering the lives and works of Chinese writers of contemporary Chinese literature. The authors covered all had well-established careers by the 1990s; most captured their audiences and gained critical recognition in the 1970s and 1980s. The economic, political, and social changes of the 1990s, including the commercialization of literature and the relaxation of limits on expression, had great influence on the literature of these writers.

A New Literary History of Modern China

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967917
Total Pages : 1033 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis A New Literary History of Modern China by : David Der-wei Wang

Download or read book A New Literary History of Modern China written by David Der-wei Wang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 140 Chinese and non-Chinese contributors, this landmark volume, edited by David Der-wei Wang, explores unconventional forms as well as traditional genres, emphasizes Chinese authors’ influence on foreign writers as well as China’s receptivity to outside literary influences, and offers vibrant contrasting voices and points of view.

China’s Literary Cosmopolitans

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004299971
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis China’s Literary Cosmopolitans by : Christopher Rea

Download or read book China’s Literary Cosmopolitans written by Christopher Rea and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s Literary Cosmopolitans offers a comprehensive introduction to the intertwined literary careers of Qian Zhongshu (1910-98) and Yang Jiang (b. 1911) and explains why they have come to represent compelling models of Chinese-centric literary cosmopolitanism.

Modern China and the West

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004270221
Total Pages : 373 pages
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Book Synopsis Modern China and the West by : Hsiao-yen PENG

Download or read book Modern China and the West written by Hsiao-yen PENG and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation, the authors investigate the significant role translation plays in cultural mediation. Transnational organizations that bring about cross-cultural interactions as well as regulating authorities, in the form of both nation-states and ideologies, are under scrutiny.

Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004163824
Total Pages : 537 pages
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Book Synopsis Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money by : Maghiel van Crevel

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Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004449124
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays by : Zaifu Liu

Download or read book Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays written by Zaifu Liu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liu Zaifu 劉再復 is a name that has already been ingrained within contemporary Chinese literary history. This landmark volume presents Anglophone readers with Liu’s profound reflections on Chinese literature and culture at different times. These critical essays deal with cultural criticism and literary theory, literary history, and individual modern and contemporary Chinese writers.

The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541147
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature by : Kirk A. Denton

Download or read book The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature written by Kirk A. Denton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the effects of censorship, the representation of the Chinese diaspora, the rise and meaning of Sinophone literature, and the role of different media in the development of literature. Subsequent essays focus on authors, their works, and the schools with which they were aligned, featuring key names, titles, and terms in English and in Chinese characters. Woven throughout are pieces on late Qing fiction, popular entertainment fiction, martial arts fiction, experimental theater, post-Mao avant-garde poetry, post–martial law fiction from Taiwan, contemporary genre fiction from China, and recent Internet literature. The volume includes essays on such authors as Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, Jin Yong, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Gao Xingjian, and Yan Lianke. Both a teaching tool and a go-to research companion, this volume is a one-of-a-kind resource for mastering modern literature in the Chinese-speaking world.

A History of Modern Chinese Fiction

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Publisher : Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9789629966614
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (666 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Modern Chinese Fiction by : Chih-tsing Hsia

Download or read book A History of Modern Chinese Fiction written by Chih-tsing Hsia and published by Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Chinese Fiction was first published in 1961 and has ever since become a classic in the study of twentieth-century Chinese fiction. This volume accounts the development of Chinese fiction from the Literary Revolution in 1917 to the early 60s. C. T. Hsia delved into the works of important writers such as Lu Hsün, Pa Chin, Lao She, Eileen Chang, and Ch'ien Chung-shu. In Hsia's own words, "the literary historian's first task is always the discovery and appraisal of excellence," and in this belief he re-evaluated the important figures in modern Chinese literature, and "discovered" those who had not been given proper attention. To this day, A History of Modern Chinese Fiction is still a must-read for students interested in modern Chinese literature.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190628146
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures by : Carlos Rojas

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures written by Carlos Rojas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that include popular culture in Late Qing China, Zhang Guangyu's Journey to the West in Cartoons, writings of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan, the Chinese Anglophone Novel, and depictions of HIV/AIDS in Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man.

Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134032234
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture written by Carlos Rojas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another. An international line up of contributors present detailed analyses of literary works and other cultural products that have previously been neglected by scholars, while also examining more familiar authors and works from provocative new angles.The essays include investigations into the cultural industries and contexts that produce the canonical and popular, the position of contemporary popular works at the interstices of nostalgia and amnesia, and also the ways in which cultural texts are inflected with gendered and erotic sensibilities while at the same time also functioning as objects of desire in its own right. As the only volume of its kind to cover the entire span of the 20th century, and also to consider the interplay of popular and canonical literature in modern China with comparable rigor, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture is an important resource for students and scholars of Chinese literature and culture.