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