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