A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature

A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9004078800
ISBN-13 : 9789004078802
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature by : Milena Doleželová-Velingerová

The Monster That Is History

The Monster That Is History
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 0520937244
ISBN-13 : 9780520937246
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The Monster That Is History by : David Der-Wei Wang

In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese—often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude—this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity. Wang considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, and personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events. His discussion ranges from the politics of decapitation to the poetics of suicide, and from the typology of hunger and starvation to the technology of crime and punishment.

Ding Ling's Fiction

Ding Ling's Fiction
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 0674207653
ISBN-13 : 9780674207653
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Ding Ling's Fiction by : Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker

The Monster That Is History

The Monster That Is History
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780520238732
ISBN-13 : 0520238737
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis The Monster That Is History by : Dewei Wang

In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations.

Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century

Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 0253108365
ISBN-13 : 9780253108364
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century by : Pang-Yuan Chi

"... an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." -- Choice "This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949... discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and societal issues in modern Chinese literature." -- Library Journal This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the enunciative endeavors, ranging from ideological treatises to avant-garde experiments, that inform the polyphonic discourse of Chinese cultural politics; (3) to observe the historical factors that enacted the interplay of literary (post)modernities across the Chinese communities in the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas.

Milestones on a Golden Road

Milestones on a Golden Road
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780774823746
ISBN-13 : 0774823747
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Milestones on a Golden Road by : Richard King

In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King discusses pivotal works of fiction published under the watchful eye of China’s Communist regime between 1945 and 1980. Addressing questions of literary production, King looks at how writers dealt with shifting ideological demands, what indigenous and imported traditions inspired them, and how they were able to depict a utopian Communist future to their readers, as the present took a very different turn. Early “red classics” were followed by works featuring increasingly lurid images of joyful socialism, and later by fiction exposing the Mao era as an age of irrationality, arbitrary rule, and suffering – a Golden Road that had led to nowhere.

Becoming Chinese

Becoming Chinese
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 451
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ISBN-10 : 9780520924413
ISBN-13 : 052092441X
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Becoming Chinese by : Wen-hsin Yeh

This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, they show that modernity in material culture and changes in intellectual consciousness should serve as twin foci of a new wave of scholarly analysis. Examining in particular the rise of modern Chinese cities and the making of the Chinese nation-state, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume of cultural history provide new ways of thinking about China's modern transformation up to the 1950s. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that the combined effect of a modernizing state and an industrializing economy weakened the Chinese bourgeoisie and undercut the individual's quest for autonomy. Drawing upon new archival sources, these theoretically informed, thoroughly revisionist essays focus on topics such as Western-inspired modernity, urban cosmopolitanism, consumer culture, gender relationships, interchanges between city and countryside, and the growing impact of the state on the lives of individuals. The volume makes an important contribution toward a postsocialist understanding of twentieth-century China.

Visual Culture in Contemporary China

Visual Culture in Contemporary China
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781107084391
ISBN-13 : 1107084393
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Visual Culture in Contemporary China by : Xiaobing Tang

Explores China's rich visual culture from the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present day.

Modernity with a Cold War Face

Modernity with a Cold War Face
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 9781684175352
ISBN-13 : 1684175356
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernity with a Cold War Face by : Xiaojue Wang

"The year 1949 witnessed China divided into multiple political and cultural entities. How did this momentous shift affect Chinese literary topography? Modernity with a Cold War Face examines the competing, converging, and conflicting modes of envisioning a modern nation in mid-twentieth century Chinese literature. Bridging the 1949 divide in both literary historical periodization and political demarcation, Xiaojue Wang proposes a new framework to consider Chinese literature beyond national boundaries, as something arising out of the larger global geopolitical and cultural conflict of the Cold War.Examining a body of heretofore understudied literary and cultural production in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas during a crucial period after World War II, Wang traces how Chinese writers collected artistic fragments, blended feminist and socialist agendas, constructed ambivalent stances toward colonial modernity and an imaginary homeland, translated foreign literature to shape a new Chinese subjectivity, and revisited the classics for a new time. Reflecting historical reality in fictional terms, their work forged a path toward multiple modernities as they created alternative ways of connection, communication, and articulation to uncover and undermine Cold War dichotomous antagonism."