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Author | : Qin Wang |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9813296402 |
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This book aims to demonstrate the multiplicity of configurations of the individual in modern Chinese literature through analyzing several classic texts written by Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun, Lao She, and Mu Shiying. It attempts to refresh our understanding of the history of modern Chinese literature and indirectly responds to the controversial issue of “individual rights” (or “human rights”) in present-day China, showing that in modern Chinese literature, various configurations of the individual imply political possibilities that are not only irreconcilable with each other, but irreducible to the determination of the modern discourse of “individualism” introduced by the West. A groundbreaking work, it will give valuable context to political scientists and other scholars seeking to understand what "China" means in the 21st century.
Author | : Yingjin Zhang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780804726825 |
Download The City in Modern Chinese Literature & Film Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This study explores the ways in which the city and urban life have been represented in modern Chinese literature and film. The author has three aims: to trace the literary and filmic configurations (i.e., symbolic constructions) of the city in modern China; to investigate the ways the city is placed in an ambivalent - if not negative - light in these configurations; and to work toward an understanding of how one can study the nature of the city/country problematic in modern Chinese literary history." "The book draws upon many literary and filmic texts that have been either previously ignored or deemed of no importance, and presents them in such a way that they - together with certain canonical works interpreted from new perspectives - point to an important structure of urban imagination in modern China. Throughout, the author draws upon theoretical insights from a wide variety of disciplines - anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, as well as literature, film, and cultural studies - to illuminate particular issues."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Peter Button |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004170952 |
Download Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Li-hua Ying |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 825 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1538130068 |
Download Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world. As it has been challenged and enriched by external influences, it has contributed to the wealth of literary culture of the entire world. In terms of themes and styles, modern Chinese literature is rich and varied; from the revolutionary to the pastoral, from romanticism to feminism, from modernism to post-modernism, critical realism, psychological realism, socialist realism, and magical realism. Indeed, it encompasses a full range of ideological and aesthetic concerns. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.
Author | : Jaroslav Průšek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download The Lyrical and the Epic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines 20th century (especially post-revolutionary) Chinese literature in reference to the traditions and continuity of classical Chinese literature. The method is of interest to both Sinologists and those interested in methods for critical study of comparative literature.
Author | : Petrus Liu |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2022-12-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478024054 |
Download The Specter of Materialism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petrus Liu argues, stems from an incomplete understanding of capitalism’s contemporary transformations, of which China has been at the center. In The Specter of Materialism Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus—global capitalism’s latest mutation—to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality. Liu explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession, demonstrating that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories. In so doing, he offers a new history of collective struggles that provides a transnational framework for understanding the nexus between queerness and material life.
Author | : Peter Button |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2009-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9047424263 |
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Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity.
Author | : Artur K. Wardega |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1443807915 |
Download Belief, History and the Individual in Modern Chinese Literary Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A value system in constant change; a longing for stability amid uncertainties about the future; a new consciousness about the unlimited challenges and aspirations in modern life: these are themes in modern Chinese literature that attract the attention of overseas readers as well as its domestic audience. They also provide Chinese and foreign literary researchers with complex questions about human life and achievements that search beyond national identities for global interaction and exchange. This volume presents ten outstanding essays by Chinese and European scholars who have undertaken such exchange for the purpose of examining the individual and society in modern Chinese literature.
Author | : Xinmin Liu |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2014-02-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 900426535X |
Download Signposts of Self-Realization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Signposts of Self-Realization, Xinmin Liu offers an ontological study of education and development of the individual self through the prisms of ethical progress and social evolution in the context of modern Chinese literature and film. Did self-realization in the Chinese modern follow the law of Social Darwinism: the biggest ego always won out? Is individualism always self-regarding, never other-regarding? How did the Greater I evolve out of the Lesser I socially and ethically? Confronting these questions, the author navigates through the terrains of paraphrastic translation, Buddhist nonself, lyrical epiphany, redemptive memory and ethnic orality to map out an alternative path for the growth of a modern Chinese self.
Author | : Jianmei Liu |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190238151 |
Download Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a powerful account of how the ruin and resurrection of Zhuangzi in modern China's literary history correspond to the rise and fall of modern Chinese individuality. The book highlights two central philosophical themes of Zhuangzi: the absolute spiritual freedom and the rejection of absolute and fixed views on right and wrong. It argues that the twentieth-century reinterpretation and appropriation of these two important philosophical themes best testify to the dilemma and inner struggle of modern Chinese intellectuals.