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