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