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.
The Story of Yingying • Historical consciousness of the lyrical • Phonetic • The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons • Yingying zhuan • Lunyu • Zhongshuo • ‘di’ (‘de’) • Xiyou ji • Six Dynasties • Wei • Doctrines of the Middle Way • Metaphorical Language • Shuihu zhuan • Taste • Poetic taste • Analects • Chineseness • Ban Gu • Popular literature • Utopia • Chuanqi • Modern Chinese literary theory • Post-Modernity • Honglou meng • Literary Self-Consciousness • The Dream of the Red Chamber • Mountains and Rivers Fall Asleep • Jests • Jiao Hong ji • Golden Tower Master • Chunjin jiangnan • Comparative literature • 18th CPC Congress • Goethe • Liu Xie • Lyricism • World literature • ‘Literariness’ • Song Yuan • Peach Blossom-beauty • Shu • Bai Shouyi • Introduction to Literary Theory • Chinese Political Discourse • Wang Tong • ‘zhe’ • Jiang Shiquan • Miscellaneous drama • Chinese poetry • Jestbook • Jinlouzi • Humorous anecdotes • Death • Golden Rule • Huabu • Shanhe ru meng • Honma Hisao • Pre-modern Chinese fiction • Shouhuo • Neo-Confucianism • Gérard Genette • The Journey to the West • The Story of Jiaoniang and Feihong • Emily Dickinson • Structure auxiliary • Wenxin diaolong • Belated Mellow Period • Ernest Fenollosa • Grammar • Chinese Written Character • Chinese Contemporary Literature • Classical Chinese theater • Yan Lianke • Empathy • Gu wei jin yong • 12th CPC Congress • End of Spring in Jiangnan • Outlaws on the Marsh • Confucianism • Consideration of others • Qing dynasty drama • Dystopia • Didactic conception of literature • Chinese modernity • Tao Yuanming • The Water Margin • ‘Spirit of the times’ • Renmian taohua • Feng Zhi • Wenzhongzi • Sima Qian