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