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