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