Linking Ancient and Contemporary

Introduction

• Introduction
• Tiziana Lippiello, Maddalena Barenghi, Chen Yuehong 陈跃红

Part 1 Pre-Modern and Modern Literature

• Measuring Human Relations
  Continuities and Discontinuities in the Reading of the Lunyu 
• Tiziana Lippiello

• Bai Shouyi on Sima Qian and Ban Gu
• Hans van Ess

• '中国'之义：文中子的立身与存心
  The Notion of ‘Zhongguo’: The Life and Thought of Wenzhongzi
• Zhang Pei 张沛

• On the Literary Self-Consciousness of the Han, Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
• Fu Gang 傅刚

• Traditional Chinese Jestbooks and Ming Revival
• Giulia Baccini

• 《水浒传》评论中对立思维的三次递进
  On the Three Stages of Contradictory Comments of The Water Margin
• Liu Yongqiang 刘永强

• Becoming a Couple
  Conversations and Couple Narrative in the Novella Jiao Hong ji
• Barbara Bisetto

• The Chapter Titles in Xiyou ji and Honglou meng
  Continuity and Discontinuity
• Nicholas Koss

Part 2 Contemporary Literature

• Comparative Literature and World Literature in an Age of Trans-cultural Dialogue
• Chen Yuehong 陈跃红

• The Tradition of Telling and the Desire of Showing in Ge Fei’s ‘Fictional Minds’
• Nicoletta Pesaro

• ‘晚郁时期’的中国当代文学
  'The Belated Mellow Period' of Chinese Contemporary Literature
• Chen Xiaoming 陈晓明

• The Pragmatic Tradition of Chinese Literature and the Current ‘Spirit of the Times’
• Marco Fumian

• Honma Hisao’s model of Literary Theory and its Influence in China
• Jin Yongbing 金永兵

• The Disillusionment with the Rural Utopia in Chinese Literature
• Wu Xiaodong 吴晓东

Part 3 Poetry and Theatre

• Traditions and Transitions in Eighteenth-Century Qu Poetry
  The Case of Jiang Shiquan (1725-1785)
• Tian Yuan Tan

• Feng Zhi and Goethe of Later Years
• Zhang Hui 张辉

• Liu Xie’s Wenxin diaolong, Ernest Fenollosa’s The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry and 20th Century Avant-garde
• Sean Golden

• What’s the Link between the Lyrical and Modernity in China?
  A Discussion on Chinese lyrical Modernity
• Li Yang 李杨

• Poetic Taste and Tasting Poetry
• Yang Zhu 杨铸

• Voices of the Dead
  Tao Yuanming and Emily Dickinson’s Poems on Their Own Death
• Qin Liyan 秦立彦

Part 4 Language and Political Discourse

• Modernity and Subjectivity from the Past to the Present
• Yang Xiaobin 杨小滨

• The Evolution of Metaphorical Language in Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse
  Preliminary Evidence from the 12th and 18th CPC Congresses
• Paolo Magagnin

• 论“底”来源于“者”
  On the Derivation of ‘di’ 底 from ‘zhě’ 者
• Yang Rongxiang 杨荣祥

Biographies

• Biographies