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