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