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