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