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