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