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Chinese literature
Author: Tales of Futures Past
Author: Paola IovenePublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804791600
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed, by a center of power. By contrast, Tales of Futures Past introduces "anticipation"—the expectations that permeate life as it unfolds—as a lens through which to reexamine the textual, institutional, and experiential aspects of Chinese literary culture from the 1950s to 2011. In doing so, Paola Iovene connects the emergence of new literary genres with changing visions of the future in contemporary China. This book provides a nuanced and dynamic account of the relationship between state discourses, market pressures, and individual writers and texts. It stresses authors' and editors' efforts to redefine what constitutes literature under changing political and economic circumstances. Engaging with questions of translation, temporality, formation of genres, and stylistic change, Iovene mines Chinese science fiction and popular science, puts forward a new interpretation of familiar Chinese avant-garde fiction, and offers close readings of texts that have not yet received any attention in English-language scholarship. Far-ranging in its chronological scope and impressive in its interdisciplinary approach, this book rethinks the legacies of socialism in postsocialist Chinese literary modernity.
Chinese literature
Author: Heroines of the Qing
Author: Binbin YangPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, “exemplary women” (lienu)—heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and faithful maidens, for example—were written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting adherence to female virtue by Confucian family standards. However, despite the rich writing traditions about these women, their lives were often distorted by moral and cultural agendas. Binbin Yang, drawing on interdisciplinary sources, shows how they were able to cross boundaries that were typically closed to women—boundaries not only of gender, but also of knowledge, economic power, political engagement, and ritual and cultural authority. Yang closely examines the rhetorical strategies these “exemplary women” exploited for self-representation in various writing genres and highlights their skillful negotiation with, and appropriation of, the values of female exemplarity for self-empowerment.
The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature
Author: William H. NienhauserPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253334565
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
""A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published."" --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.
Chinese Literature
Author: Village Echoes
Author: Philip F. WilliamsPublisher: Westview Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Author: Rey ChowPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231124218
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A diverse set of texts from Foucault, Weber, Derrida and others are examined in this reconceptualization of the way ethnicity functions in capitalist society.
Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews
Author: A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature 1900-1949
Author: Milena Doleželová-VelingerováPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004642943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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