A world history of Chinese literature

Providing a broad introduction to the area, this book maps the field of Chinese literature across its various worlds. Looking both within - at the world of Chinese literature, its history, linguistic, cultural, local, and regional specificities - and without - at the way Chinese Literature has circu...

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Other Authors: Zhang, Yingjin (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: London Taylor & Francis Ltd 2023
Series:Routledge literature handbooks
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Author Notes:Yingjin Zhang
Table of Contents:
  • I. Overviews: Literature, History, and the Multiple Worlds1. General Introduction 2. Modern Chinese Literary Historiography II. Circulation and Reception of China in World Literature 3. Zeitgeist and Literature: The Reception of Chinese Literature in Germany until the First Half of the Twentieth Century 4. Paris and the Art of Transposition, 1920s-1940s5. Line, Loop, Constellation: Classical Chinese Poetry between Sinophone and Anglophone Worlds 6. A Decade Apart: Bridging the US and China Literary Systems, 2010-2021 III. Worlding Chinese Literature Across the Globe7. Chinese Literature at Large: Wong Chin Foo s Border-Crossing Writing 8. Engaging the World in Republican Literature 9. The Rise of Author Museums in the PRC: How Institutions Make World LiteratureIV. Sinophone Worlds of Borderlands, Urban Jungles, and Rainforests 10. Yi Literature: Traditional and Contemporary 11. Queer Sinophone Literature in Hong Kong: The Politics of Worldliness 12. Taiwanese Literature in the Early Twenty-First Century 13. Of Other (Chinese) Spaces: Sinophone Literature and the Rainforest V. Comparative Worlds of Literary Genres 14. Modern Chinese Drama Across Media and Worlds: Centered on the Case of the White Snake 15. Reportage and the Forms of Nonfiction Art in China 16. Reading World Literature in Chinese Science Fiction 17. Ecological Critique as World Literature: Alienation of Nature and Humans in Chen Qiufan s Waste Tide VI. Translingual Worlds of Writers and Scholars 18. Su Manshu s "Broken Hairpin": A Romantic Tragedy in the Hard Times 19. Qian Zhongshu as a Cosmopolitan 20. Zhang Ailing and the Cold War Cultural Geography 21. Worlding Jin Yong s Martial Arts (Wuxia) Narrative in Three Keys 22. Yan Lianke s Heterotopic Imaginaries VII. New Worlds of Gender Configurations 23. Modern Intellectual Masculinities in Transformation 24. Nora in China 25. Reading Women: Rethinking a Trope in the Socialist Modern and Beyond 26. Feminine Neorealist Fiction in the New Millennium: Voice, Trauma, and Focalization in Fang Fang s FictionVIII. Changing Worlds of Translation and Transmediation27. Frame Tales: Reading the 1,001 Nights in Early Twentieth-Century China 28. Figuring Time: Lyricism in Contemporary Chinese Poetic Films 29. Performance and Performativity in Modern China 30. Chinese Internet Fictions in the Transmedia World Index