Author: Binghui SongPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819711991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Studies of Literature from Marginalized Nations in Modern China, with a Focus on Eastern European Literature
Author: Binghui SongPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819711991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Studies of Literature from Marginalized Nations in Modern China, with a Focus on Eastern European Literature
Author: Binghui SongPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789819711987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book presents the first systematic study of the 100-year history of translation, research, reception, and influence of Central and Eastern European literature in China from the late Qing Dynasty to the end of the twentieth century. This study of Eastern European literature from the perspective of Sino-foreign literary relations is based on extensive research into the translation and reception of Central and Eastern European writers such as Milan Kundera, Sándor Petőfi, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Julius Fucik, and Bertolt Brecht. Since the late nineteenth century, the major Chinese writers have paid special attention to the literature of the marginalized Eastern European nations when they have to translate from translations since few of them understand Eastern European languages. The book seeks to identify what attracted the founders of new Chinese literature to Eastern European literature and to define its unique significance for the construction of modern Chinese literature.
East Asian Literatures
Author: Publisher: Northern Book Centre
ISBN: 9788172112059
Category : Chinese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This volume discusses the past, present and future perspectives of literature in Japan, China and South Korea and its interface with India. Since this being a largely unexplored area, an attempt has been made to present a true picture of the literature and cultural milieu of the East Asian countries to the readers through well researched, thought-provoking and enlightening papers contributed by eminent scholars from India, Japan, China and Korea. It is a historical fact that India maintained strong cultural ties with East Asian countries directly or indirectly through religion and culture since ancient times. This cultural bond has become all the more significant and meaningful in this age of information technology and globalization. In this context, literature has a great role to play. To be precise, it is only through literature that this existing bond of cultural affinity among India and East Asian countries could be nurtured and strengthened. This book gives a vivid picture of the state of the past and present literary trends in Japan, China and South Korea, the influence of Indian literary trends and thought on their literatures, and the general perception and assimilation of East Asian literatures in India. This book would be a unique and comprehensive reference material for teachers, researchers, students, writers, and literary critics of Indian and East Asian literatures.
China and the West at the Crossroads
Author: Daiyun YuePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811011168
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Beginning with a retrospective of the past century, this book offers a panoramic picture of Chinese comparative literature, from its nascence in the early 1920s, through its evolution in the 1980s, to the new development at the turn of the century, ending with a prospective look at the future of comparative literature in the 21st century. The articles presented here reveal the author’s deep understandings of the literature and culture of her own country and those of other countries. A rich array of case studies and in-depth theorizing make it an extremely interesting and enlightening read. Prof. Daiyun Yue is a prominent professor at Peking University and a leading figure in Chinese comparative literature. She has served as Head of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, PKU (1984—1998) and the third president of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association (1989—2014). Further, she is the founder of Dialogue Transculturel, a much-acclaimed journal of comparative literature. Prof. Yue approaches outstanding literature as a bridge to link people of different cultural traditions: “The reason why interdisciplinary literary research between two alien cultures is possible is because dialog between alien cultures, along with exchange and understanding, is more readily realized through literature.” Herein lies the value of comparative literature.
Reading China Against the Grain
Author: Carlos RojasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000216519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Through an analysis of a wide array of contemporary Chinese literature from inside and outside of China, this volume considers some of the ways in which China and Chineseness are understood and imagined. Using the central theme of the way in which literature has the potential to both reinforce and to undermine a national imaginary, the volume contains chapters offering new perspectives on well-known authors, from Jin Yucheng to Nobel Prize winning Mo Yan, as well as chapters focusing on authors rarely included in discussions of contemporary Chinese literature, such as the expatriate authors Larissa Lai and Xiaolu Guo. The volume is complemented by chapters covering more marginalized literary figures throughout history, such as Macau-born poet Yiling, the Malaysian-born novelist Zhang Guixing, and the ethnically Korean author Kim Hak-ch’ŏl. Invested in issues ranging from identity and representation, to translation and grammar, it is one of the few publications of its kind devoting comparable attention to authors from Mainland China, authors from Manchuria, Macau, and Taiwan, and throughout the global Chinese diaspora. Reading China Against the Grain: Imagining Communities is a rich resource of literary criticism for students and scholars of Chinese studies, sinophone studies, and comparative literature
On the Margins of Modernism
Author: Christopher RosenmeierPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474426468
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Introduces popular 1940s Chinese authors and explores their influence on Chinese literature Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), but although they were an integral part of the Chinese literary scene their bestselling fiction has been given scant attention in histories of Chinese writing. This groundbreaking book, the first book-lenghth study of Xu Xu and Wumingshi in English or any other western language, re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940s. With in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels, Christopher Rosenmeier demonstrates how these important writers incorporated and adapted narrative techniques from Shanghai modernist writers like Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying, contesting the view that modernism had little lasting impact in China and firmly positioning these two figures within the literature of their times.Fills a gap in Chinese literary historyFocuses on two of the most popular Chinese authors of the 1940sDevelops a wider argument about the influence of Shanghai modernism on Chinese wartime literature
Western Literature in China and the Translation of a Nation
Author: S. QiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137011947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
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.
Inside a Service Trade
Author: Rudolf G. WagnerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Within a tightly controlled environment, literature has become the major screen onto which the political class of the People’s Republic of China projects some of its battles. This work explores the potential of literary analysis for illuminating the PRC’s social, intellectual, and political history, illustrating swings in the Party line with stories, articles, and cartoons from the popular press. This book presents materials hitherto scarcely topped and should offer new insights to those interested in Chinese literature, Russian and East European literature, and modern social and political history.
The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature
Author: Mingjun LuPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317038509
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature examines how English writers responded to the cultural shock caused by the first substantial encounter between China and Western Europe. Author Mingjun Lu explores how Donne and Milton came to be aware of England’s participation in ’the race for the Far East’ launched by Spain and Portugal, and how this new global awareness shaped their conceptions of cultural pluralism. Drawing on globalization theory, a framework that proves useful to help us rethink the literary world of Renaissance England in terms of global maritime networks, Lu proposes the concept of ’liberal cosmopolitanism’ to study early modern English engagement with the other. The advanced culture of the Chinese, Lu argues, inculcated in Donne and Milton a respect for difference and a cosmopolitan curiosity that ultimately led both authors to reflect in profound and previously unexamined ways upon their Eurocentric and monotheistic assumptions. The liberal cosmopolitan model not only opens Renaissance literary texts to globalization theory but also initiates a new way of thinking about the early modern encounter with the other beyond the conventional colonial/postcolonial, nationalist, and Orientalist frameworks. By pushing East-West contact back to the period in 1570s-1670s, Lu’s work uncovers some hitherto unrecognized Chinese elements in Western culture and their shaping influence upon English literary imagination.
Perceptions of China in Modern Portuguese Literature
Author: David BrookshawPublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Annotation This work focuses specifically on the literature of the last one hundred years. It shows how Portuguese orientalism at the turn of the last century, while not ignoring 'orientalist' influences from Northern Europe, became woven into the perception writers had of their own country's history, the discoveries Portugal had pioneered, and its declining international role. The fiction, poetry and travel writing of authors who lived in or visited Macau, invariably view China through the prism of Portugal's past history, even though, between the end of the nineteenth as at the end of the twentieth century, new issues of gender and ethnicity and the emergence of a small Eurasian intelligentsia in Macau had lent variety to the literature. This volume examines work by Camilo Pessanha, Eca de Queiros, Miguel Torga, Deolinda da Conceicao, Maria Ondina Braga, Henrique de Senna Fernandes, and Rodrigo Leal de Carvalho.