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