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