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