China in Western Literature
Author | : Tongli Yuan |
Publisher | : New Haven, Yale U |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tongli Yuan |
Publisher | : New Haven, Yale U |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David E. Pollard |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027216282 |
In the late Qing period, from the Opium War to the 1911 revolution, China absorbed the initial impact of Western arms, manufactures, science and culture, in that order. This volume of essays deals with the reception of Western literature, on the evidence of translations made. Having to overcome Chinese assumptions of cultural superiority, the perception that the West had a literature worth notice grew only gradually. It was not until the very end of the 19th century that a translation of a Western novel ("La dame aux camelias") achieved popular acclaim. But this opened the floodgates: in the first decade of the 20th century, more translated fiction was published than original fiction.The core essays in this collection deal with aspects of this influx according to division of territory. Some take key works (e.g. Stowe s "Uncle Tom s Cabin, " Byron s The Isles of Greece ), some sample genres (science fiction, detective fiction, fables, political novels), the common attention being to the adjustments made by translators to suit the prevailing aesthetic, cultural and social norms, and/or the current needs and preoccupations of the receiving public. A broad overview of translation activities is given in the introduction.To present the subject in its true guise, that of a major cultural shift, supporting papers are included to fill in the background and to describe some of the effects of this foreign invasion on native literature. A rounded picture emerges that will be intelligible to readers who have no specialized knowledge of China.
Author | : S. Qi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137011947 |
This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China.
Author | : Will Peyton |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2021-07-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 303079315X |
Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin’s Three Body Trilogy examines Liu Cixin’s acclaimed trilogy, a Chinese science fiction epic whose translation is exceedingly popular in the Western world. Will Peyton argues that the ingenuity of Liu’s writing is found in its conscious engagement with translated Western fiction rather than, as one might expect, in Chinese language science fiction of the past. The book illustrates how contemporary Chinese fiction, since the economic opening of China in the late 1980s, is deeply and complexly influenced by various strains in Western literary and intellectual thought, an area that scholars of Chinese literature have tended to neglect. Providing a lucid and succinct close-reading and textual analysis of Three Body trilogy, the book also makes reference to broader ideas and themes in modern Chinese and Western intellectual history.
Author | : Tung-Li Yuan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258365202 |
Author | : Colin Mackerras |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book discusses the ways in which Westerners, from the earliest times until the late 1980s, have perceived China--both the China of their own time and the China of the past. Examining sources from all media, the author demonstrates the enormous variety in Western images of China over the centuries--at certain times China has constituted a model for schools of thought in the West, while at others the country has been viewed as a threat.
Author | : Bonnie S. McDougall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adrian Hsia |
Publisher | : Chinese University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9789622016088 |
The Vision of China is the first book on China as it came to be reflected in English literature. As such, it also offers the first comprehensive study of the image of China in Western literature. Featuring essays by prominent Chinese scholars such as Qian Zongshu, Fan Cunzhong, and Chen Shouyi, it complements such works as Pierre Martino's L'Orient dans la litterature francaise au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siecle (1906), Ursula Aurich's China im Spiegel der deutschen Literature des 18. Jahrhunderts (1935), and E. Horst Tscharner's China in der deutschen Dichtung bis zur Klassik (1939).Together with William W. Appleton's A Cycle of Cathay: The Chinese Vogue in England during the 17th and 18th Centuries (1951) and Raymond Dawson's The Chinese Chameleon: An Analysis of European Conceptions of Chinese Civilization (1967), the book studies the last phase of the Chinese mode in England. Some of the articles collected here actually inspired Appleton's study, at least in part.As a contemporary volume on the construct of China, The Vision of China can readily be considered the companion study to Edward Said's envisioned Orient in Orientalism (1979), to Tzvetan Todorov's Africa in Nous et les autres: la reflection francaise sur la diversite humaine (1989), and Gauri Viswanathan's Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (1989).
Author | : Wu Cheng'en |
Publisher | : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2018-08-14 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9812298894 |
The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!
Author | : Wolfgang Franke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |