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