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Author : Mason Y. H. Wang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Perspectives in Contemporary Chinese Literature written by Mason Y. H. Wang and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Lupke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230610145
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
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.
Author : Jinghao Zhou
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739180460
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Chinese vs. Western Perspectives written by Jinghao Zhou and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is on the rise in the globalized world. The relationship between China and the United States has become the most important global issue in the twenty-first century. It is urgent to understand what is happening in China and where China is heading. However, there are many misconceptions about China in the West, which affect Westerners’ ability to objectively understand China, and, ultimately influence the making of foreign policy toward China. The author attempts to challenge the misconceptions coming from both Western societies and China, and offer an integrated picture of contemporary China through systematically examining the major aspects of contemporary Chinese society and culture with the most recent data, and presents convincing arguments in eighteen chapters for spurring mutual understanding between China and the West. The author intends this book to be an interdisciplinary and comprehensive guide to China for a general audience, and it covers a wide variety of topics, including history, family, population, Chinese women, economy, environmental issues, politics, religion, media, U.S.-China relations, and other subjects. This book demonstrates the author’s extensive research and thoughtful examination of many sides of controversial issues related to China with a nice balance of Western and Chinese scholarship. This is one of the few that are authored by scholars who originate from China and have their professional career in the United States, but it is distinctive from the rest of studies on this subject in that the author is committed to examining today’s China from Chinese as well as Western perspectives. This is not only a scholarly book, but also is suitable for general classes on China.
Author : Jie Lu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317969731
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book China’s Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century written by Jie Lu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. Given its complexity, the literary/cultural production of this period perhaps can be understood most productively as a response to a global modernity that has touched and transformed all aspects of contemporary Chinese reality. The eleven essays in this book offer an introduction to some of the most important works published at the turn of the twenty-first century. In combining textual analysis of specific works with theoretical insights, and in locating the texts in their sociocultural and socioeconomic contexts, the essays explore key theoretical issues and intellectual concerns of the time. They collectively draw a broad contour of new developments, major trends, and radical changes, capturing the intellectual and cultural Zeitgeist of the age. All in all, these essays offer new theoretical approaches to, and critical perspectives on, contemporary Chinese literature and culture.
Author : Rong Cai
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824865065
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature written by Rong Cai and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Mao China produced two parallel discourses on the human subject in the New Era (1976–1989). One was an autonomous, Enlightenment humanist self aimed at replacing the revolutionary paragon that had dominated under Mao. The other was a more problematic subject suffering from either a symbolic physical deformity or some kind of spiritual paralysis that undermines its apparent normalcy. How do we explain the stubborn presence, in the literature of the 1980s and 1990s, of this crippled agent who fails to realize the humanist autonomy envisioned by post-Mao theorists? What are the anxieties and tensions embedded in this incongruity and what do they reveal? This illuminating and original critical study of the crippled subject in post-Mao literature offers a detailed textual analysis of the work of five well-known contemporary writers: Han Shaogong, Can Xue, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, and Jia Pingwa. The author investigates not only the literary characters within the texts, but also their creators—real subjects in history, Chinese writers whose own agency was being tested and established in the search for a new subjectivity. She argues that, reenacting the Maoist legacy, the literary search failed to provide a viable model for a postrevolutionary China. In addition, the deficiency and inadequacy of the subject cannot always be contained in the Communist past—a history to be transcended in the design of modernity after Mao. The representation of the problematic subject thus punctured post-Mao optimism and foreshadowed the eventual abandonment of the move to rethink subjectivity in the 1990s. By diving beneath the euphoria of the 1980s and the confusion and frustration of the 1990s, these critical readings offer a unique perspective with which to gauge the complexity of China’s quest for modernity and a fuller understanding of the self’s multifaceted experience in the post-Mao era.
Author : Tonglin Lu
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438411332
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society written by Tonglin Lu and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-05-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with." — Confucius Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as the equivalent of "inferior men." Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution periods.
Author : Y. Huang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230608752
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Chinese Literature written by Y. Huang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and 'cultural bastards' - Duoduo, an underground 'misty' poet; Wang Shuo, a 'hooligan' writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old 'Red Guard' and new 'cultural heretic'; and Wang Xiaobo, a chronicler of Rabelaisian modern history.
Author : Rong Cai
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824828462
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (284 download)
Download or read book The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature written by Rong Cai and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Mao China produced two parallel discourses on the human subject in the New Era (1976–1989). One was an autonomous, Enlightenment humanist self aimed at replacing the revolutionary paragon that had dominated under Mao. The other was a more problematic subject suffering from either a symbolic physical deformity or some kind of spiritual paralysis that undermines its apparent normalcy. How do we explain the stubborn presence, in the literature of the 1980s and 1990s, of this crippled agent who fails to realize the humanist autonomy envisioned by post-Mao theorists? What are the anxieties and tensions embedded in this incongruity and what do they reveal? This illuminating and original critical study of the crippled subject in post-Mao literature offers a detailed textual analysis of the work of five well-known contemporary writers: Han Shaogong, Can Xue, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, and Jia Pingwa. The author investigates not only the literary characters within the texts, but also their creators—real subjects in history, Chinese writers whose own agency was being tested and established in the search for a new subjectivity. She argues that, reenacting the Maoist legacy, the literary search failed to provide a viable model for a postrevolutionary China. In addition, the deficiency and inadequacy of the subject cannot always be contained in the Communist past—a history to be transcended in the design of modernity after Mao. The representation of the problematic subject thus punctured post-Mao optimism and foreshadowed the eventual abandonment of the move to rethink subjectivity in the 1990s. By diving beneath the euphoria of the 1980s and the confusion and frustration of the 1990s, these critical readings offer a unique perspective with which to gauge the complexity of China’s quest for modernity and a fuller understanding of the self’s multifaceted experience in the post-Mao era.
Author : Zicheng Hong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004157549
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature written by Zicheng Hong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough overview and analysis of the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Chih-p'ing Chou
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691146918
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book A Kaleidoscope of China written by Chih-p'ing Chou and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-06 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kaleidoscope of China is an advanced Chinese-language textbook that gives students a greater command of Chinese while deepening their understanding of the social and cultural issues facing China today. Geared to the unique needs of students with two or more years of instruction in modern Chinese, this book features a stimulating selection of articles and essays from major newspapers and periodicals in China, offering a revealing look at contemporary Chinese society. Topics include: buying a home versus having a child; consumer exports to America; depression; online dating; cell phones; empty-nest syndrome; fast food; the Virginia Tech massacre; medicine; the 2008 Sichuan earthquake; and global warming. Every selection is accompanied by a vocabulary list, exercises, and grammar notes. No other Chinese-language textbook so effectively helps advanced students expand their language skills while immersing them in what is truly a kaleidoscope of today's China. Teaches advanced Chinese while providing a window into contemporary China Features selections from actual Chinese newspapers and periodicals Includes vocabulary lists, exercises, and grammar notes Ideal for students with two or more years of instruction in modern Chinese
Author : Carlos Rojas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000216519
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Reading China Against the Grain written by Carlos Rojas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of a wide array of contemporary Chinese literature from inside and outside of China, this volume considers some of the ways in which China and Chineseness are understood and imagined. Using the central theme of the way in which literature has the potential to both reinforce and to undermine a national imaginary, the volume contains chapters offering new perspectives on well-known authors, from Jin Yucheng to Nobel Prize winning Mo Yan, as well as chapters focusing on authors rarely included in discussions of contemporary Chinese literature, such as the expatriate authors Larissa Lai and Xiaolu Guo. The volume is complemented by chapters covering more marginalized literary figures throughout history, such as Macau-born poet Yiling, the Malaysian-born novelist Zhang Guixing, and the ethnically Korean author Kim Hak-ch’ŏl. Invested in issues ranging from identity and representation, to translation and grammar, it is one of the few publications of its kind devoting comparable attention to authors from Mainland China, authors from Manchuria, Macau, and Taiwan, and throughout the global Chinese diaspora. Reading China Against the Grain: Imagining Communities is a rich resource of literary criticism for students and scholars of Chinese studies, sinophone studies, and comparative literature
Author : Sung-sheng Chang
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313489
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Modernism and the Nativist Resistance written by Sung-sheng Chang and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive English-language study of literary trends in the fiction of Taiwan over the last forty years, this pioneering work explores a rich tradition of literary Modernism in its shifting relationship with Chinese politics and culture. Situating her subject in its historical context, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang traces the connection between Taiwan's Modernists and the liberal scholars of pre-Communist China. She discusses the Modernists' ambivalent relationship with contemporary Taiwan's conservative culture, and provides a detailed critical survey of the strife between the Modernists and the socialistically inclined, anti-Western Nativists. Chang's approach is comprehensive, combining Chinese and comparative perspectives. Employing the critical insights of Raymond Williams, Peter Burger, M. M. Bahktin, and Fredric Jameson, she investigates the complex issues involved in Chinese writers' appropriation of avant-gardism, aestheticism, and various other Western literary concepts and techniques. Within this framework, Chang offers original, challenging interpretations of major works by the best-known Chinese Modernists from Taiwan. As an intensive introduction to a literature of considerable quality and impact, and as a case study of the global spread of Western literary Modernism, this book will be of great interest to students of Chinese and comparative literature, and to those who wish to understand the broad patterns of twentieth-century literary history.
Author : C. Laughlin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349530274
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature written by C. Laughlin and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a significant gathering of ideas on the subject of modern Chinese literature and culture of the past several years. The essays represent a wide spectrum of new approaches and new areas of subject matter that are changing the landscape of knowledge of modern and contemporary Chinese culture: women's literature, theatre (performance), film, graphic arts, popular literature, as well as literature of the Chinese diaspora. These phenomena and the approaches to them manifest interconnected trajectories for new scholarship in the field: the rewriting of literary history, the emergence of visual culture, and the quotidian apocalypse - the displacement of revolutionary romanticism and realism as central paradigms for cultural expression by the perspective of private, everyday experience.
Author : Zhang Jiong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317482689
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Literature and Literary Criticism in Contemporary China written by Zhang Jiong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each age has its value system of literary criticism whose construction is inseparable from the mainstream ideology of the society. In contemporary China, the mainstream ideology is inevitably Marxism. This book is composed of two parts. The first part studies literary criticism in contemporary China whose development is closely related to the popularization of Marxism and the unavoidable collisions between Marxism and other theories. It also introduces some relevant critical debates, such as the debate on the criticism of Yu Pingbo, a representative and one of the authoritative scholars studying The Dream of the Red Chamber. In the second part, the author expounds the history of Chinese literature from a macro-level perspective, involving works, genres, ideologies, schools, etc. He also discusses the challenges facing Chinese literature under the background of economic globalization. Will politics, cultures, including literature and arts, be globalized? In addition, the author puts forward that a dynamic concept is needed for a better understanding of Chinese culture and gives his suggestions about the "adjustments" Chinese people should make for the present. This book will attract scholars and students of literary criticism studies and Chinese literary studies. People who are interested in Chinese literature and thought will also benefit from this book.
Author : Tong King Lee
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004293388
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Experimental Chinese Literature written by Tong King Lee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Experimental Chinese Literature Tong King Lee explores how translation, technology, and text come together in the works of contemporary Chinese authors in the creation of a material poetics.
Author : Chih-p'ing Chou
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069116293X
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book A Reflection of Reality written by Chih-p'ing Chou and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-24 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reflection of Reality is an anthology of modern Chinese short stories designed as an advanced-level textbook for students who have completed at least three years of college-level Chinese. While many advanced-level Chinese language textbooks stress only practical communication, this textbook uses stories from well-known Chinese authors not only to enhance students' language proficiency, but also to expose students to the literature, history, and evolution of modern Chinese society. The twelve stories selected for this textbook are written by such contemporary authors as Yu Hua, Wang Anyi, and Gao Xingjian, and have appeared in various newspapers and magazines in China. Each story is filled with useful sentence structures, vocabulary, and cultural information, and is followed by an extensive vocabulary list, numerous sentence structure examples, grammar exercises, and discussion questions. The textbook also includes a comprehensive pinyin index. A Reflection of Reality will effectively improve students' Chinese language skills and their understanding of today's China. Advanced-level Chinese language textbook Selected short stories reflect contemporary Chinese society and culture Extensive vocabulary lists, sentence structure examples, grammar exercises, and discussion questions Comprehensive pinyin index
Author : Zhang Jiong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317482743
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Literature and Literary Theory in Contemporary China written by Zhang Jiong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marxism initiated a new era not only for people to fight for socialist future, but also for each discipline of sciences to witness profound changes. In such a context, literature, which has always been closely related to politics, will inevitably move toward a new direction. This book is composed of two parts. Part One studies the development of literary theories in contemporary China from a Marxist perspective. It introduces the basic ideas of Marxist literary theories as well as their spread and development in China, such as the combination of the theories and Chinese revolutionary literature. Moreover, it discusses the challenges facing Marxist literary theories in the 21st century under the background of diversification of literature and art, in terms of theory and practice, and high technologies which brought about electronic writing and digital communication of literary works. The second part elucidates the author’s insights into major issues concerning literary theories (e.g. the relationship between literature and people, literature and reality, perception and rationality in literary creation, etc.) This book will appeal to scholars and students of literary aesthetics and Chinese literary and cultural studies. People who are interested in history of contemporary Chinese literature will also benefit from this book.
