The Pragmatic Tradition of Chinese Literature and the Current ‘Spirit of the Times’

• Marco Fumian - Università degli Studi di Napoli «L'Orientale», Italia - email

Introduction

• Introduction
• Tiziana Lippiello, Maddalena Barenghi, Chen Yuehong 陈跃红

Part 1 Pre-Modern and Modern Literature

• Measuring Human Relations
  Continuities and Discontinuities in the Reading of the Lunyu 
• Tiziana Lippiello

• Bai Shouyi on Sima Qian and Ban Gu
• Hans van Ess

• '中国'之义：文中子的立身与存心
  The Notion of ‘Zhongguo’: The Life and Thought of Wenzhongzi
• Zhang Pei 张沛

• On the Literary Self-Consciousness of the Han, Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
• Fu Gang 傅刚

• Traditional Chinese Jestbooks and Ming Revival
• Giulia Baccini

• 《水浒传》评论中对立思维的三次递进
  On the Three Stages of Contradictory Comments of The Water Margin
• Liu Yongqiang 刘永强

• Becoming a Couple
  Conversations and Couple Narrative in the Novella Jiao Hong ji
• Barbara Bisetto

• The Chapter Titles in Xiyou ji and Honglou meng
  Continuity and Discontinuity
• Nicholas Koss

Part 2 Contemporary Literature

• Comparative Literature and World Literature in an Age of Trans-cultural Dialogue
• Chen Yuehong 陈跃红

• The Tradition of Telling and the Desire of Showing in Ge Fei’s ‘Fictional Minds’
• Nicoletta Pesaro

• ‘晚郁时期’的中国当代文学
  'The Belated Mellow Period' of Chinese Contemporary Literature
• Chen Xiaoming 陈晓明

• The Pragmatic Tradition of Chinese Literature and the Current ‘Spirit of the Times’
• Marco Fumian

• Honma Hisao’s model of Literary Theory and its Influence in China
• Jin Yongbing 金永兵

• The Disillusionment with the Rural Utopia in Chinese Literature
• Wu Xiaodong 吴晓东

Part 3 Poetry and Theatre

• Traditions and Transitions in Eighteenth-Century Qu Poetry
  The Case of Jiang Shiquan (1725-1785)
• Tian Yuan Tan

• Feng Zhi and Goethe of Later Years
• Zhang Hui 张辉

• Liu Xie’s Wenxin diaolong, Ernest Fenollosa’s The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry and 20th Century Avant-garde
• Sean Golden

• What’s the Link between the Lyrical and Modernity in China?
  A Discussion on Chinese lyrical Modernity
• Li Yang 李杨

• Poetic Taste and Tasting Poetry
• Yang Zhu 杨铸

• Voices of the Dead
  Tao Yuanming and Emily Dickinson’s Poems on Their Own Death
• Qin Liyan 秦立彦

Part 4 Language and Political Discourse

• Modernity and Subjectivity from the Past to the Present
• Yang Xiaobin 杨小滨

• The Evolution of Metaphorical Language in Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse
  Preliminary Evidence from the 12th and 18th CPC Congresses
• Paolo Magagnin

• 论“底”来源于“者”
  On the Derivation of ‘di’ 底 from ‘zhě’ 者
• Yang Rongxiang 杨荣祥

Biographies

• Biographies

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_444
dc.contributor.author	Fumian Marco
dc.title	The Pragmatic Tradition of Chinese Literature and the Current ‘Spirit of the Times’
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	The role of Chinese writers, during the Maoist period, was mainly that of educating the masses to the official ideological values promoted by the Communist Party (CCP), in order to mould their attitudes and behaviours in accordance to the social goals pursued by the Communist state. Since the inception of the Reform Era (1978), however, and especially since the rise of the market and the consequent commercialization of the cultural production in the Nineties, the majority of the Chinese writers increasingly declined their previous role of social educators preferring to devote instead to the pursuit of a politically detached, and socially disengaged, ‘pure’ literature. The CCP, nevertheless, continued all along to encourage the Chinese writers and artists to educate the people fostering their social values and shaping their worldview according to the correct ‘spirit of the times’. How could literature continue to perform, in this period, this educational task despite the depoliticization of many Chinese writers and the commercial logic that came to dominate the literary field? What kind of social values and goals constituted the current ‘spirit of the times’? What literary genres and narratives did in fact contribute to the propagation of this spirit? These are the central questions that will be addressed in this article, whose main purpose is to observe how certain expressions of popular literature, in today’s China, are renewing some older didactic conceptions of literature in order to provide new types of teachings suitable to the demands of the current Chinese society.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2016-09-29
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-07-16
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-098-3/the-pragmatic-tradition-of-chinese-literature-and/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-095-2/SV-3-12
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-098-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-095-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Didactic conception of literature
dc.subject	Didactic conception of literature
dc.subject	Popular literature
dc.subject	Popular literature
dc.subject	‘Spirit of the times’
dc.subject	‘Spirit of the times’
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