Buch, Englisch, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 1034 g
Buch, Englisch, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 1034 g
Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-118-45162-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
* Offers the most thorough and concise coverage of modern Chinese literature to date, drawing attention to previously neglected areas such as late Qing, Sinophone, and ethnic minority literature
* Several chapters explore literature in relation to Sinophone geopolitics, regional culture, urban culture, visual culture, print media, and new media
* The introduction and two chapters furnish overviews of the institutional development of modern Chinese literature in Chinese and English scholarship since the mid-twentieth century
* Contributions from leading literary scholars in mainland China and Hong Kong add their voices to international scholarship
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Weitere Infos & Material
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xv
1 General Introduction 1
Yingjin Zhang
Part I History and Geography 39
2 Literary Modernity in Perspective 41
Zhang Longxi
3 Late Qing Literature, 1890s-1910s 54
Hu Ying
4 War, Revolution, and Urban Transformations: Chinese Literature of the Republican Era, 1920s-1940s 67
Nicole Huang
5 Socialist Literature Driven by Radical Modernity, 1950-1980 81
Chen Xiaoming (translated by Qin Liyan)
6 Thirty Years of New Era Literature: From Elitization to De-Elitization 98
Tao Dongfeng (translated by Angie Chau)
7 Building a Modern Institution of Literature: The Case of Taiwan 116
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
8 Sinophone Literature 134
Ping-hui Liao
Part II Genres and Types 149
9 Modern Poetry in Chinese: Challenges and Contingencies 151
Michelle Yeh
10 Modern Chinese Theater Study and its Century-Long History 167
Xiaomei Chen
11 Literariness (Wen) and Character (Zhi): From Baihua to Yuluti and Dazhongyu 181
Qian Suoqiao
12 Fiction in Modern China: Modernity through Storytelling 195
Yiyan Wang
13 Modern China's Translated Literature 214
Zha Mingjian
14 Writing Chinese Feminism(s) 228
Amy Dooling
15 The World of Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction: From Shanghai Express to Rivers and Lakes of Knights-Errant 244
Yi Zheng
16 Ethnic Minority Literature 261
Mark Bender
Part III Cultures and Media 277
17 Use in Uselessness: How Western Aesthetics Made Chinese Literature More Political 279
Ban Wang
18 The Linguistic Turns and Literary Fields in Twentieth-Century China 295
Jianhua Chen
19 The Significance of the Northeastern Writers in Exile, 1931-1945 312
Haili Kong
20 Writing Cities 326
Weijie Song
21 Divided Unities of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture: The Modern Girl, Woodcuts, and Contemporary Painter-Poets 343
Paul Manfredi
22 All the Literature That's Fit to Print: A Print Culture Perspective on Modern Chinese Literature 360
Nicolai Volland
23 The Proliferating Genre: Web-Based Time-Travel Fiction and the New Media in Contemporary China 379
Jin Feng
Part IV Issues and Debates 395
24 The Persistence of Form: Nation, Literary Movement, and the Fiction of Ng Kim Chew 397
Carlos Rojas
25 The Modern Girl in Modern Chinese Literature 411
Tze?]lan D. Sang
26 Body as Phenomenon: A Brief Survey of Secondary Literature of the Body in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 424
Ari Larissa Heinrich
27 The Post-Maoist Politics of Memory 434
Yomi Braester
28 Writing Historical Traumas in the Everyday 452
Lingchei Letty Chen
29 A Brief Overview of Chinese-Language Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 465
Chen Sihe (translated by Alvin Ka Hin Wong)
30 Toward a Typology of Literary Modernity in China: A Survey of English Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 483
Yingjin Zhang
Bibliography 501
Glossary 503
Index 548