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1 online resource (xxiv, 1001 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Worlding Literary China -- The Multiple Beginnings Of Modern Chinese "Literature" -- Dutch Plays, Chinese Novels, And Images Of An Open World -- The Revival of Letters in Nineteenth-Century China -- Legacies in clash: anticipatory modernity versus imaginary nostalgia -- Robert morrison's chinese literature and translated modernity -- Gongyang imaginary and looking to the confucian past for reform -- Flowers in the mirror and chinese women: "at home in the world" -- Utter disillusion and acts of repentance in late classical poetry -- In search of a chinese utopia: the taiping rebellion as a literary event -- My life in china and america and transpacific translations -- Two chinese poets are homeless at home -- Foreign devils, chinese sorcerers, and the politics of literary anachronism -- Women writers in early modern china -- Wang tao lands in hong kong -- Media, literature, and early chinese modernity -- The politics of translation and the romanization of chinese into a world language -- In lithographic journals, text and image flourish on the same page -- Lives of shanghai flowers, dialect fiction, and the genesis of vernacular modernity -- The "new novel" before the rise of the new novel -- Qiu feng jia and the poetics of tears -- Language reform and its discontents -- Oracle bones, that dangerous supplement . . . -- Liang qichao's suspended translation and the future of chinese new fiction -- Fallen leaves, grieving cicadas, and poetic mourning after the boxer rebellion -- Eliza crosses the ice-and an ocean-and uncle tom's cabin arrives in china -- Sherlock holmes comes to china -- Imagining Modern Utopia By Rethinking Ancient Historiography -- Wen And The "First History(-Ies) Of Chinese Literature" -- Münchhausen Travels To China Early In The Summer Of 1905, The Young Writer -- Zhang Taiyan And The Revolutionary Politics Of Literary Restoration -- Global Theatrical Spectacle In Tokyo And Shanghai -- The Death Of China'S First Feminist -- The Death Of China'S First Feminist -- From Mara To Nobel -- A Classical Poetry Society Through Revolutionary Times -- Revolution And Love -- The Book Of Datong As A Novel Of Utopia -- Hu Shi And His Experiments -- Inventing Youth In Modern China -- Zhou Yucai Writes "A Madman'S Diary" Under The Pen Name Lu Xun -- Modern Monkhood -- The Big Misnomer: "May Fourth Literature" -- Clinical Diagnosis For Taiwan -- Turning Babbitt Into Bai Bide -- Xiang Kairan'S Monkey -- New Culture And The Pedagogy Of Writing -- Xu Zhimo And Chinese Romanticism -- Enchantment With The Voice -- Lu Xun And Tombstones -- Mei Lanfang, The Denishawn Dancers, And World Theater -- "This Spirit Of Independence And Freedom Of Thought . . . Will Last For Eternity With Heaven And Earth" -- The Legend Of A Modern Woman Writer Of Classical Verse -- Ba Jin Begins To Write Anarchist Novels -- Revolution And Rhine Wine -- Genealogies Of Romantic Disease -- Gender, Commercialism, And The Literary Market -- The Author As Celebrity -- Practical Criticism In China -- Invitation To A Beheading -- The Chinese League Of Left-Wing Writers, 1930-1936 -- Hei Ying'S "Pagan Love Song" -- Roots Of Peace And War, Beauty And Decay, Are Sought In China'S Good Earth -- Recollections Of Women Soldiers On The Long March -- On Language, Literature, And The Silent Screen -- The Execution Of Qu Qiubai -- The Child And The Future Of China In The Legend Of Sanmao -- Crossing The River And Ding County Experimental Theater -- One Day In China -- Resonances Of A Visual Image In The Early Twentieth Century -- Lu Xun And The Afterlife Of Texts -- Cao Yu And His Drama -- A Chinese Poet'S Wartime Dream -- William Empson, W. H. Auden, And Modernist Poetry In Wartime China -- The Lost Novel Of The Nanjing Massacre -- The Poetics And Politics Of Neo-Sensationism -- Between Chineseness And Modernity: The Film Art Of Fei Mu -- Chinese Revolution And Western Literature -- Eileen Chang In Hong Kong -- In War She Writes -- Taiwan'S Genius Lü Heruo -- The Cultural And Political Significance Of Mao Zedong'S Talks At The Yan'An Forum On Literature And Art -- The Genesis Of Peasant Revolutionary Literature -- The North Has Mei Niang -- Ideologies Of Sound In Chinese Modernist Poetry -- The Enigma Of Yu Dafu And Nanyang Literature -- On Literature And Collaboration -- On Memory And Trauma: From The 228 Incident To The White Terror -- The Socratic Tradition In Modern China -- The Life Of A Chinese Literature Textbook -- Shen Congwen'S Journey: From Asylum To Museum -- A New Time Consciousness: The Great Leap Forward -- The Genesis Of Literary History In New China -- Transnational Socialist Literature In China -- A Provocation To Literary History -- Salvaging Chinese Script And Designing The Mingkwai Typewriter -- Lao She And America -- The Emergence Of Regional Opera On The National Stage -- Lu Ling, Hu Feng, And Literary Persecution -- Hong Kong Modernism And I -- Zhou Shoujuan'S Romance À La Mandarin Ducks And Butterflies -- Orphans Of Asia -- Sino-Muslims And China'S Latin New Script: A Reunion Between Diaspora And Nationalism -- A Monumental Model For Future Perfect Theater -- Mao Zedong Publishes Nineteen Poems And Launches The New Folk Song Movement -- On The Song Of Youth And Literary Bowdlerization -- Hunger And The Chinese Malaysian Leftist Narrative -- Three Ironic Moments In My Mother Ru Zhijuan'S Literary Career -- The Legacies Of Jaroslav Průšek And C. 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Hsia -- Fu Lei And Fou Ts'Ong: Cultural Cosmopolitanism And Its Price -- The "Red Pageant" And China'S First Atomic Bomb -- Red Prison Files -- Modernism Versus Nativism In 1960S Taiwan -- The Specter Of Liu Shaoqi -- The Red Lantern: Model Plays And Model Revolutionaries -- Jin Yong Publishes The Smiling, Proud Wanderer In Ming Pao -- The Angel Island Poems: Chinese Verse In The Modern Diaspora -- In Search Of Qian Zhongshu -- A Subtle Encounter: Tête-Bêche And In The Mood For Love -- The Mysterious Death Of Bruce Lee, Chinese Nationalism, And Cinematic Legacy -- Yang Mu Negotiates Between Classicism And Modernism -- Poems From Underground -- A Modern Taiwanese Innocents Abroad -- Confessions Of A State Writer: The Novelist Hao Ran Offers A Self-Criticism -- Chen Yingzhen On The White Terror In Taiwan -- Liu Binyan And The Price Of Relevance -- A Tale Of Two Cities -- Food, Diaspora, And Nostalgia -- Discursive Heat: Humanism In 1980S China -- The Advent Of Modern Tibetan Free-Verse Poetry In The Tibetan Language -- Literary Representation Of The White Terror And Rupture In Mid-Twentieth- Century Taiwan -- Searching For Roots In Literature And Film -- The Writer And The Mad(Wo)Man -- The Birth Of China'S Literary Avant-Garde -- Gao Xing Jian'S Pursuit Of Freedom In The Spirit Of Zhuangzi -- "Rewriting Literary History" In The New Era Of Liberated Thought -- Anything Chinese About This Suicide? -- The Song That Rocked Tiananmen Square -- Trauma And Cinematic Lyricism -- From The Margins To The Mainstream: A Tale Of Two Wangs -- Meng Jinghui And Avant-Garde Chinese Theater -- The Death Of Teresa Teng -- Formal Experiments In Qiu Miaojin'S "Lesbian I Ching" -- Modern China As Seen From An Island Perspective -- "The First Modern Asian Gay Novel" -- Hong Kong'S Literary Retrocession In Three Fantastical Novels -- Representing The Sinophone, Truly: On Tsai Ming-Liang'S I Don'T Want To Sleep Alone -- The Silversmith Of Fiction -- The Poet In The Machine: Hsia Yü'S Analog Poetry Enters The Digital Age -- Sixteen-Year- Old Han Han Roughs Up The Literary Scene -- Resurrecting A Postlapsarian Pagoda In A Postrevolutionary World -- Wolf Totem And Nature Writing -- Chinese Verse Going Viral: "Removing The Shackles Of Poetry" -- Suddenly Coming Into My Own -- Writer-Wanderer Li Yongping And Chinese Malaysian Literature -- Chinese Media Fans Express Patriotism Through Parody Of Japanese Web Comic -- Ang Lee'S Adaptation, Pretense, Transmutation -- Encountering Shakespeare'S Plays In The Sinophone World -- Defending The Dignity |
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Of The Novel -- Minority Heritage In The Age Of Multiculturalism -- Ye Si And Lyricism -- Lightning Strikes Twice: "Mother Tongue" Minority Poetry -- Chinese Science Fiction Presents The Posthuman Future -- Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
| Summary |
Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and complete the world--a process of "worlding" that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A New Literary History of Modern China looks beyond state-sanctioned works and official narratives to reveal China as it has seldom been seen before, through a rich spectrum of writings covering Chinese literature from the late-seventeenth century to the present. Featuring over 140 Chinese and non-Chinese contributors from throughout the world, this landmark volume explores unconventional forms as well as traditional genres--pop song lyrics and presidential speeches, political treatises and prison-house jottings, to name just a few. Major figures such as Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, and Mo Yan appear in a new light, while lesser-known works illuminate turning points in recent history with unexpected clarity and force. Many essays emphasize Chinese authors' influence on foreign writers as well as China's receptivity to outside literary influences. Contemporary works that engage with ethnic minorities and environmental issues take their place in the critical discussion, alongside writers who embraced Chinese traditions and others who resisted. Writers' assessments of the popularity of translated foreign-language classics and avant-garde subjects refute the notion of China as an insular and inward-looking culture. A vibrant collection of contrasting voices and points of view, A New Literary History of Modern China is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of China's literary and cultural legacy |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English |
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Chinese literature -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- China -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese
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Chinese literature
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Literature and society
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China
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Der-wei Wang, David
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| ISBN |
9780674978898 |
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0674978897 |
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