Modern Chinese Writers

Author : Helmut Martin,Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315488677

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Modern Chinese Writers by Helmut Martin,Jeffrey C. Kinkley Pdf

This volume gathers personal reflections on life and literature by 44 of China's leading authors. It aims to illustrate how Chinese society and its creative writing have supported, competed and fought with each other for the past 40 years and more. Much of what is revealed here is mundane, but the pressure of bringing art to social and political causes, indeed the universal pressure to survive, forges this collection into a very human document. The strengths and weaknesses of these essays offer a window on those of modern Chinese literature itself. Realism was the favoured literary doctrine of the day, and, reflecting this, most of these essays speak for themselves - about war, revolution, betrayal and commitment.

Author : Laifong Leung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317516187

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Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers by Laifong Leung Pdf

In the years since the death of Mao Zedong, interest in Chinese writers and Chinese literature has risen significantly in the West. In 2000, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature followed by Mo Yan in 2012, and writers such as Ha Jin and Da Sijie have also become well known in the West. Despite this progress, the vast majority of Chinese writers remain largely unknown outside of China. This book introduces the lives and works of eighty contemporary Chinese writers, and focuses on writers from the "Rightist" generation (Bai Hua, Gao Xiaosheng, Liu Shaotang), writers of the Red Guard generation (Li Rui, Wang Anyi), Post-Cultural Revolution Writers, as well as others. Unlike earlier works, it provides detailed, often first-hand, biographical information on this wide range of writers, including their career trajectories, major themes and artistic characteristics. In addition to this, each entry includes a critical presentation and evaluation of the writer’s major works, a selected bibliography of publications that includes works in Chinese, works translated into English, and critical articles and books available in English. Offering a valuable contribution to the field of contemporary Chinese literature by making detailed information about Chinese writers more accessible, this book will be of interest to students and scholars Chinese Literature, Contemporary Literature and Chinese Studies.

Author : Clara Iwasaki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : 1621965473

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Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon by Clara Iwasaki Pdf

This book examines four canonical Chinese writers (Xiao Hong, Yu Dafu, Lao She, and Zhang Ailing) in relation to their translations, interpellations, and interpretations in different languages.

Author : Howard Goldblatt
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0765638649

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Worlds Apart by Howard Goldblatt Pdf

Thirteen selected papers from an international conference on contemporary Chinese literature held near Gunzburg, Bavaria, in June-July 1986 constitute both a record of literary writings from the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as an overview of the broader international role of Chinese writing i

Author : Leo Ou-fan Lee
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000423273

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The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers by Leo Ou-fan Lee Pdf

Author : Wendy Larson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015021987030

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Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer by Wendy Larson Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century, Chinese writers have confronted the problem of creating a new literary tradition that both maintains the culturally unique aspects of a rich heritage and succeeds in promoting a new modernity. In the first book-length treatment of the topic, Wendy Larson examines the contradictory forms of authority at work in the autobiographical texts of modern Chinese writers and scholars and the way these conflicts helped to shape and determine the manner in which writers viewed themselves, their texts, and their work. Larson focuses on the most famous writers associated with the May Fourth Movement, a group most active in the 1920s and 1930s, and their fundamental ambivalence about writing. She analyzes how their writing paradoxically characterized textual labor as passive, negative, and inferior to material labor and the more physical political work of social progress, and she describes the ways they used textual means to devalue literary labor. The impact of China's increasing contact with the West--particularly the ways in which Western notions of "individualism" and "democracy" influenced Chinese ideologies of self and work--is considered. Larson also studies the changes in China's social structure, notably those linked to the abolition in 1905 of the educational exam system, which subsequently broke the link between the mastery of certain texts and the attainment of political power, further denigrating the cultural role of the writer.

Author : C. T. Hsia
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253213118

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A History of Modern Chinese Fiction, Third Edition by C. T. Hsia Pdf

First published in 1961, and reissued in new editions several times, this is the pioneering, classic study of 20th-century Chinese fiction. The book covers some 60 years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76. C. T. Hsia, Prof. Emeritus of Chinese at Columbia Univ., examines the major writers from Lu Hsun to Eileen Chang and representative works since 1949 from both mainland China and Taiwan. The first serious study of modern Chinese fiction in English, this book is also the best study of its subject available. Not only the specialist, but every reader who is interested in China or in literature will find it of interest. Hsia's astute insights and graceful writing make the book enjoyable as well as deeply edifying.

Author : Bonnie S. McDougall
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9629961059

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Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences by Bonnie S. McDougall Pdf

The authors and audiences for 20th century Chinese literature, especially fiction, are examined in a fresh light. While modern Chinese fictions are imaginary in that they do not constitute reliable portraits of Chinese life, they offer insights into the writers themselves and their implied audiences.

Author : Jin Siyan
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789629967871

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Subjective Writing in Contemporary Chinese Literature by Jin Siyan Pdf

Translated from the original French publication, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of 20th century Chinese literature and examines the relationship between Chinese literary theory and modernity. The author surveys the work of leading writers including Zhang Ailing, Beidao, and Mu Dan. The author seeks to answer some fundamental questions in the study of Chinese literary history, such as: How does contemporary Chinese literature go from historical narrative to the narrative of the I, where rhythm and epic merge into writing, and where the instinctive load of the rhythm substantiates the epic? What are the steps and the forms of mediation that allow such a transition? Is the subject the only agent of the transition? What is its status? What is the role of poetic language that led to the birth of the subject and which separates it from empiricism? What are the difficulties faced by Chinese writers today? Young Chinese writers set off in search of a totally new writing to rediscover subjectivity, which is in no way limited to literature; it also covers areas such as the law, and the expression of the I confronted to an overpowering we.

Author : Pang-Yuan Chi,David Der-wei Wang
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253108365

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Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century by Pang-Yuan Chi,David Der-wei Wang Pdf

"... 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.

Author : Joseph S. M. Lau,Howard Goldblatt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231138415

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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature by Joseph S. M. Lau,Howard Goldblatt Pdf

An anthology of Chinese fiction, poetry, and essays written during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author : Xiaoping Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004398634

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Contending for the "Chinese Modern" by Xiaoping Wang Pdf

In Contending for the "Chinese Modern", Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. It makes critical reappraisements of some famed Chinese writers, and sheds fresh lights on the theoretical issues pertaining to the problematic of plural modernities.

Author : Chih-tsing Hsia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000462461

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A History of Modern Chinese Fiction, 1917-1957 by Chih-tsing Hsia Pdf

Author : Michael S. Duke
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0765638568

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Modern Chinese Women Writers by Michael S. Duke Pdf

The essays in this volume consider the state of current writing of the world's best Chinese women writers. All the contributors relate their authors to the life and work of other contemporary Chinese women writers, and compare work coming from PRC, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. The essays make a contribution to the fields of Modern Chinese literature and women's studies, and although they are primarily intended to bear witness to the quality of women's writing, they also attempt to elucidate the complex issues of Chinese women's lives in the contemporary world.

Author : Siyan Jin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : 988237705X

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Subjective Writing in Contemporary Chinese Literature by Siyan Jin Pdf

Translated from the original French publication, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of 20th century Chinese literature and examines the relationship between Chinese literary theory and modernity. Jin Siyan surveys the work of leading writers including Zhang Ailing, Beidao, and Mu Dan. She seeks to answer some fundamental questions in the study of Chinese literary history, such as: How does contemporary Chinese literature go from historical narrative to the narrative of the I, where rhythm and epic merge into writing, and where the instinctive load of the rhythm substantiates the epic? What are the steps and the forms of mediation that allow such a transition? Is the subject the only agent of the transition? What is its status? What is the role of poetic language that led to the birth of the subject and which separates it from empiricism? What are the difficulties faced by Chinese writers today? Young Chinese writers set off in search of a totally new writing to rediscover subjectivity, which is in no way limited to literature; it also covers areas such as the law, and the expression of the I confronted with an overpowering we.