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