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