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Author : Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804713726
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of Shen Congwen written by Jeffrey C. Kinkley and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografie van de Chinese leterkundige Shen Congwen (1902- ).
Author : Charles A. Laughlin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082483125X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity written by Charles A. Laughlin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informal essay writing (xiaopin wen). Laughlin examines the essay both as a widely practiced and influential genre of literary expression and as an important counter-discourse to the revolutionary tradition of New Literature (especially realistic fiction), often viewed as the dominant mode of literature at the time. After articulating the relationship between the premodern traditions of leisure literature and the modern essay, Laughlin treats the various essay styles representing different groups of writers. Each is characterized according to a single defining activity: "wandering" in the case of the Yu si (Threads of Conversation) group surrounding Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren; "learning" with the White Horse Lake group of Zhejiang schoolteachers like Feng Zikai and Xia Mianzun; "enjoying" in the case of Lin Yutang’s Analects group; "dreaming" with the Beijing school. The concluding chapter outlines the impact of leisure literature on Chinese culture up to the present day. The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity dramatizes the vast importance and unique nature of creative nonfiction prose writing in modern China. It will be eagerly read by those with an interest in twentieth-century Chinese literature, modern China, and East Asian or world literatures.
Author : Congwen Shen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824817152
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Imperfect Paradise written by Congwen Shen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and authoritative representation in English of the remarkable Shen Congwen canon, ranging from the polished stories that made him a serious contender for the Nobel literary prize in the 1980s to lesser known, extravagant experimental pieces.
Author : Congwen Shen
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789629961107
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book 沈從文短篇小說選 written by Congwen Shen and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short stories reveals the plight and strength of the common Chinese people. There are contradictions between the 'new' and the 'old', and also between human values with enough integrity to nurture life, versus corruption that leads to the decline and death of a culture.
Author : Gang Zhou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351253700
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Routledge Companion to Shen Congwen written by Gang Zhou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is about studies of Shen Congwen (1902–1988), one of the most important writers in modern China, but more importantly, it is about how Shen Congwen has been received in and beyond Mainland China. By presenting the best literary criticism on Shen Congwen in Mainland China over the past 80 years, and views of how Shen Congwen has been understood, interpreted, and appreciated in Japan, the US, and Europe, the editors propose a new way to approach the topics of canonic writers, modern Chinese literature, and world literature. This is itself a translated project. Its Chinese edition appeared in May 2017. The bilingual rendering of the best criticism of Shen Congwen from a global perspective intends to initiate and advance dialogues between Chinese- and English- language scholarly communities. We strive to explore the complexities of “worldwide” images and interpretations of Shen Congwen. By calling attention to the foreign spaces into which overseas Shen Congwens and modern Chinese literature are reborn as world literature, we acknowledge and celebrate the study of Shen Congwen and modern Chinese literature as ongoing and endless cross-cultural dialogues and manifestations.
Author : Bonnie S. McDougall
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789629961053
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences written by Bonnie S. McDougall and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors and audiences for 20th century Chinese literature, especially fiction, are examined in a fresh light. While modern Chinese fictions are imaginary in that they do not constitute reliable portraits of Chinese life, they offer insights into the writers themselves and their implied audiences.
Author : Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804739764
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Chinese Justice, the Fiction written by Jeffrey C. Kinkley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a full-length study of Chinese crime fiction in all eras: ancient, modern, and contemporary. It is also the first book to apply legal scholars law and literature inquiry to the rich field of Chinese legal and literary culture.
Author : Paul R. Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429591829
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era written by Paul R. Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for use in courses on ethnic studies or gender studies Rethinks interaction between Han Chinese and non-Han cultures Considers how religion has adapted to the challenges of modern Chinese history Describes rituals and ritual specialists largely unknown to Western readers Combines historical and ethnographic methodologies
Author : Dewei Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231076562
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Fictional Realism in Twentieth-century China written by Dewei Wang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the academy, deconstruction, and Jacques Derrida in particular, are responsible for the demise of accountability in the study of literature. Countering these facile dismissals of Derrida and deconstruction, Herman Rapaport explores the incoherence that has plagued critical theory since the 1960s and the resulting legitimacy crisis in the humanities. Against the backdrop of a rich, informed discussion of Derrida's writings -- and how they have been misconstrued by critics and admirers alike -- The Theory Mess investigates the vicissitudes of Anglo-American criticism over the past thirty years and proposes some possibilities for reform.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004292128
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture from the early empire to the twentieth century, the twenty-five essays of A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture discuss a wealth of epistolary topics and provide numerous translations.
Author : Jiwei Xiao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100053331X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Telling Details written by Jiwei Xiao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is "reading for the details" fundamentally different from "reading for the plot"? Did xijie xiaoshuo, the Chinese novel of details, give the world its earliest form of modern fiction? Inspired by studies of vision and modernity as well as cinema, this book gazes out on the larger world through the small aperture of the detail, highlighting how concrete literary minutiae become "telling" as they reveal the dynamics of seeing and hearing, the vibrations of the mind, the complexity of the everyday, and the imperative to recognize the minute, the humble, and the hidden. In a strain of masterpieces of xijie xiaoshuo, such details play a key role in pivoting the novel from didacticism towards a capacious modern form. Examining the Chinese detail as both a common idiom and a unique concept, and extrapolating it from individual works to the culture at large, reveals under-explored areas of the Chinese novel: its psychological depths, its connections with other genres and forms, its partaking in Chinese material life and capitalist modernity, as well as repressions and difficulties surrounding its reception in national and international contexts. With carefully chosen case studies, Xiao’s book not only exemplifies the value of deep reading in approaching complex works of Chinese fiction as world literature, it also throws light on the aesthetics and politics of "the unseen," which has become central to a humanist tradition that flows across literature, cinema, and other art forms.
Author : David Der-wei Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023153857X
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Lyrical in Epic Time written by David Der-wei Wang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways. Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture in Chinese history and the precarious consequences it brought about: betrayal, self-abjuration, suicide, and silence. Despite their divergent backgrounds and commitments, the writers, artists, and intellectuals discussed in this book all took lyricism as a way to explore selfhood in relation to solidarity, the role of the artist in history, and the potential for poetry to illuminate crisis. They experimented with poetry, fiction, film, intellectual treatise, political manifesto, painting, calligraphy, and music. Western critics, Wang shows, also used lyricism to critique their perilous, epic time. He reads Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Cleanth Brooks, and Paul de Man, among others, to complete his portrait. The Chinese case only further intensifies the permeable nature of lyrical discourse, forcing us to reengage with the dominant role of revolution and enlightenment in shaping Chinese—and global—modernity. Wang's remarkable survey reestablishes Chinese lyricism's deep roots in its own native traditions, along with Western influences, and realizes the relevance of such a lyrical calling of the past century to our time.
Author : Andrew G. Stuckey
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1461633958
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Old Stories Retold written by Andrew G. Stuckey and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chinese literary tradition. Largely guided by Walter Benjamin’s discussions of history, G. Andrew Stuckey looks at the ways Chinese narrative engages a historical process that pieces together fragments of the past into new configurations to better serve present needs. By examining intertextual connections between separate texts, Stuckey seeks to discover traces of an “original,” whether it be thought of as the past, history, or tradition, when it has been rewritten in modern and contemporary Chinese fiction. Old Stories Retold shows how the articulation of the past into new historical configurations disrupts accepted understandings of the past, and as such, can be intentionally pitted against modernist historical knowledge to resist the modernist ends that this knowledge is mobilized to achieve.
Author : Pierre Wilhelm
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848883943
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Beauty: Exploring Critical Perspectives written by Pierre Wilhelm and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of unconventional metaphors of beauty calls on us to pay attention to competing and seemingly intractable connotations of fear, darkness, ugliness, oppression, repression, callousness and dejection that won’t leave us indifferent to their appeal.
Author : Chen Chang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000956857
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Routledge Companion to Ba Jin written by Chen Chang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the creations of Ba Jin (1904–2005), one of the most significant writers in modern China, this edited volume offers in-depth discussions of the writer and his works from a global perspective to initiate and advance dialogues between the Chinese- and English- speaking scholarly communities. The four sections of the book provide readers with a detailed biography and an overview of research on Ba Jin since the 1980s to reflect on the academic achievements of several generations in China. In addition, it includes a selected collection of articles from Korean, German, and French scholars. These articles cover Ba Jin’s life thoughts, personality, literary creation, editing, publishing, and other aspects of the research. This companion aims to provide an alternative lens for Chinese literature studies in a global context. It will be an essential read to students and scholars of East Asian studies, Chinese studies, and those interested in modern Chinese literature.
Author : Li-hua Ying
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461731879
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature written by Li-hua Ying and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.
Author : Li-hua Ying
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870819
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature written by Li-hua Ying and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.
