Linking Ancient and Contemporary
Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Literature
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abstract
Linking Ancient and Contemporary: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Literature is a collection of essays which stems from a project of cooperation between the Department of Asian and African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University. The first conference was held in Venice on 21-22 March 2013, the second will be held in Peking University on 14-16 October 2016. The volume reflects the desire to compare and integrate different approaches to Chinese literature, showing how, in different epochs, traditional intellectual and literary values have been repeatedly criticized and rejected, yet have often resurfaced in many different ways and have been reinterpreted.
Structure auxiliary • Outlaws on the Marsh • Chinese Contemporary Literature • ‘zhe’ • Analects • Shanhe ru meng • Zhongshuo • Neo-Confucianism • Death • Six Dynasties • Literary Self-Consciousness • Chinese poetry • The Story of Jiaoniang and Feihong • ‘di’ (‘de’) • Jests • The Water Margin • Post-Modernity • Wenxin diaolong • Goethe • Taste • Golden Rule • Empathy • Tao Yuanming • Phonetic • Chinese Written Character • Poetic taste • Humorous anecdotes • Huabu • Wang Tong • Utopia • Xiyou ji • Ernest Fenollosa • Comparative literature • Chineseness • Metaphorical Language • Gérard Genette • Yan Lianke • End of Spring in Jiangnan • Honglou meng • Pre-modern Chinese fiction • Chuanqi • Jiao Hong ji • Lunyu • Modern Chinese literary theory • Wenzhongzi • Song Yuan • Yingying zhuan • Peach Blossom-beauty • The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons • Chunjin jiangnan • Chinese modernity • Dystopia • Emily Dickinson • Consideration of others • Classical Chinese theater • Lyricism • Jiang Shiquan • Jinlouzi • Feng Zhi • Didactic conception of literature • Jestbook • Miscellaneous drama • Chinese Political Discourse • Grammar • Introduction to Literary Theory • Bai Shouyi • Confucianism • ‘Spirit of the times’ • 12th CPC Congress • Shu • Honma Hisao • Belated Mellow Period • Golden Tower Master • Doctrines of the Middle Way • The Journey to the West • Ban Gu • Sima Qian • Shuihu zhuan • 18th CPC Congress • The Story of Yingying • ‘Literariness’ • Gu wei jin yong • Popular literature • The Dream of the Red Chamber • Historical consciousness of the lyrical • Wei • Liu Xie • Mountains and Rivers Fall Asleep • World literature • Shouhuo • Qing dynasty drama • Renmian taohua