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