Decadence In Modern Chinese Literature And Culture

Author : Hongjian Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1621965430

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Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture by Hongjian Wang Pdf

"European Decadence, a controversial artistic movement that flourished mainly in late-nineteenth-century France and Britain, has inspired several generations of Chinese writers and literary scholars since it was introduced to China in the early 1920s. Translated into Chinese as tuifei, which has strong hedonistic and pessimistic connotations, the concept of Decadence has proven instrumental in multiple waves of cultural rebellion, but has also become susceptible to moralistic criticism. This is the first comprehensive study of decadence in Chinese literature since the early twentieth century. Standing at the intersection of comparative literature and cultural history, it transcends the framework of tuifei by locating European Decadence in its sociocultural context and uses it as a critical lens to examine Chinese Decadent literature and Chinese society. Its in-depth analysis reveals that some Chinese writers and literary scholars creatively appropriated the concept of Decadence for enlightenment purposes or to bid farewell to revolution. This study is also the first to offer a holistic understanding of European Decadence, uncovering both its internal logic and external circumstances, hence excavating its distinct explanatory power. It also sheds fresh light on modern Chinese literature and culture. By examining the careers of seven prominent writers-Yu Dafu, Shao Xunmei, Yu Hua, Su Tong, Wang Shuo, Wang Xiaobo, and Yin Lichuan-this study disentangles apparent contradictions in their writing and reveals the nuances in the changing status of China's modern cultural elite. Last but not least, the book significantly expands the scope of comparative literary studies beyond influence studies and cultural translation by effectively adopting a literary-historical approach-a literary phenomenon is seen at once as a product and an indicator of certain sociocultural conditions, so similar literary phenomena can illuminate comparable contexts"--

Author : Marián Gálik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : UOM:39015060552901

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Fin de Siècle (decadence) in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation by Marián Gálik Pdf

Author : Li-hua Ying
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781538130063

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature by Li-hua Ying Pdf

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 : Y. Huang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230608757

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Contemporary Chinese Literature by Y. Huang Pdf

This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and 'cultural bastards' - Duoduo, an underground 'misty' poet; Wang Shuo, a 'hooligan' writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old 'Red Guard' and new 'cultural heretic'; and Wang Xiaobo, a chronicler of Rabelaisian modern history.

Author : Hongjian Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : 1267731923

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Performing Perversion by Hongjian Wang Pdf

The "real" Decadence emerged in the 1980s and 1990s in China because Chinese intellectuals regained their elitist status after the Cultural Revolution but also felt it threatened by the growing commercial culture. They engaged in Decadence to manifest their intellectual superiority. After all, Decadence is an elitist endeavor.

Author : Xiaobing Tang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822380887

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Chinese Modern by Xiaobing Tang Pdf

Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People’s Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic, the collapse of the idea of utopia in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and the gradual cannibalization of the socialist past by consumer culture at the century’s end. Throughout, he highlights the dynamic tension between everyday life and the heroic ideal. Tang uncovers crucial clues to modern Chinese literary and cultural practices through readings of Wu Jianren’s 1906 novel The Sea of Regret and works by canonical writers Lu Xun, Ding Ling, and Ba Jin. For the midcentury, he broadens his investigation by considering theatrical, cinematic, and visual materials in addition to literary texts. His reading of the 1963 play The Young Generation reveals the anxiety and terror underlying the exhilarating new socialist life portrayed on the stage. This play, enormously influential when it first appeared, illustrates the utopian vision of China’s lyrical age and its underlying discontents—both of which are critical for understanding late-twentieth-century China. Tang closes with an examination of post–Cultural Revolution nostalgia for the passion of the lyrical age. Throughout Chinese Modern Tang suggests a historical and imaginative affinity between apparently separate literatures and cultures. He thus illuminates not only Chinese modernity but also the condition of modernity as a whole, particularly in light of the postmodern recognition that the market and commodity culture are both angel and devil. This elegantly written volume will be invaluable to students of China, Asian studies, literary criticism, and cultural studies, as well as to readers who study modernity.

Author : C. Laughlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403981332

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Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature by C. Laughlin Pdf

This book is a significant gathering of ideas on the subject of modern Chinese literature and culture of the past several years. The essays represent a wide spectrum of new approaches and new areas of subject matter that are changing the landscape of knowledge of modern and contemporary Chinese culture: women's literature, theatre (performance), film, graphic arts, popular literature, as well as literature of the Chinese diaspora. These phenomena and the approaches to them manifest interconnected trajectories for new scholarship in the field: the rewriting of literary history, the emergence of visual culture, and the quotidian apocalypse - the displacement of revolutionary romanticism and realism as central paradigms for cultural expression by the perspective of private, everyday experience.

Author : Daria Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136290213

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Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700 by Daria Berg Pdf

Exploring the works of key women writers within their cultural, artistic and socio-political contexts, this book considers changes in the perception of women in early modern China. The sixteenth century brought rapid developments in technology, commerce and the publishing industry that saw women emerging in new roles as both consumers and producers of culture. This book examines the place of women in the cultural elite and in society more generally, reconstructing examples of particular women’s personal experiences, and retracing the changing roles of women from the late Ming to the early Qing era (1580-1700). Providing rich detail of exceptionally fine, interesting and engaging literary works, this book opens fascinating new windows onto the lives, dreams, nightmares, anxieties and desires of the authors and the world out of which they emerged.

Author : Carlos Rojas,Eileen Chow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134032235

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Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture by Carlos Rojas,Eileen Chow Pdf

Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another. An international line up of contributors present detailed analyses of literary works and other cultural products that have previously been neglected by scholars, while also examining more familiar authors and works from provocative new angles.The essays include investigations into the cultural industries and contexts that produce the canonical and popular, the position of contemporary popular works at the interstices of nostalgia and amnesia, and also the ways in which cultural texts are inflected with gendered and erotic sensibilities while at the same time also functioning as objects of desire in its own right. As the only volume of its kind to cover the entire span of the 20th century, and also to consider the interplay of popular and canonical literature in modern China with comparable rigor, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture is an important resource for students and scholars of Chinese literature and culture.

Author : Kirk A. Denton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231541145

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The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature by Kirk A. Denton Pdf

The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the effects of censorship, the representation of the Chinese diaspora, the rise and meaning of Sinophone literature, and the role of different media in the development of literature. Subsequent essays focus on authors, their works, and the schools with which they were aligned, featuring key names, titles, and terms in English and in Chinese characters. Woven throughout are pieces on late Qing fiction, popular entertainment fiction, martial arts fiction, experimental theater, post-Mao avant-garde poetry, post–martial law fiction from Taiwan, contemporary genre fiction from China, and recent Internet literature. The volume includes essays on such authors as Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, Jin Yong, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Gao Xingjian, and Yan Lianke. Both a teaching tool and a go-to research companion, this volume is a one-of-a-kind resource for mastering modern literature in the Chinese-speaking world.

Author : Jie Lu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317969730

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China’s Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century by Jie Lu Pdf

China’s literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. Given its complexity, the literary/cultural production of this period perhaps can be understood most productively as a response to a global modernity that has touched and transformed all aspects of contemporary Chinese reality. The eleven essays in this book offer an introduction to some of the most important works published at the turn of the twenty-first century. In combining textual analysis of specific works with theoretical insights, and in locating the texts in their sociocultural and socioeconomic contexts, the essays explore key theoretical issues and intellectual concerns of the time. They collectively draw a broad contour of new developments, major trends, and radical changes, capturing the intellectual and cultural Zeitgeist of the age. All in all, these essays offer new theoretical approaches to, and critical perspectives on, contemporary Chinese literature and culture.

Author : Jianmei Liu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190238155

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Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature by Jianmei Liu Pdf

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.

Author : Chih-tsing Hsia
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253334772

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A History of Modern Chinese Fiction by Chih-tsing Hsia Pdf

Regarded as a pioneering classic study of 20th-century Chinese fiction, this volume covers some 60 years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.'

Author : Social Science Research Council (U.S.),Harvard University. East Asian Research Center
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000099151

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Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era by Social Science Research Council (U.S.),Harvard University. East Asian Research Center Pdf

Author : Boqun Fan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107068568

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A History of Modern Chinese Popular Literature by Boqun Fan Pdf

The first English translation of one of the most authoritative and significant studies in the field of modern Chinese literature.