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