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