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