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