Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era
Title | Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era PDF eBook |
Author | Merle Goldman |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674579118 |
One of the most creative and brilliant episodes in modern Chinese history, the cultural and literary flowering that takes the name of the May Fourth Movement, is the subject of this comprehensive and insightful book. This is the first study of modern Chinese literature that shows how China's Confucian traditions were combined with Western influences to create a literature of new values and consciousness for the Chinese people.
MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE IN THE MAY FOURTH ERA- BASED ON PAPERS PRESENTED AT A CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP- SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL.
Title | MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE IN THE MAY FOURTH ERA- BASED ON PAPERS PRESENTED AT A CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP- SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL. PDF eBook |
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The Edge of Knowing
Title | The Edge of Knowing PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Bing Chan |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2016-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0295999004 |
Reveals the historical impact of dream rhetoric on Chinese modernity and nation-building Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The Edge of Knowing investigates this relationship, showing how writers’ attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for revolutionary change, and the enduring legacy of traditional Chinese philosophy. At the same time, modern Chinese writers used their work to represent social reality for the purpose of nation building. Recent political usage of dream rhetoric in the People’s Republic of China attests to the continuing influence of dreams on the imagination of Chinese modernity. By employing a number of critical perspectives, The Edge of Knowing will appeal to readers seeking to understand the complicated relationship between literary form and Chinese history and politics.
Lin Shu, Inc.
Title | Lin Shu, Inc. PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Gibbs Hill |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199892881 |
Broken tools -- The name is changed, but the tale is told of you -- Double exposure -- Looking backward? -- The national classicist -- Becoming Wang Jingxuan -- Conclusion : pure and chaste writing
Casting Off the Shackles of Family
Title | Casting Off the Shackles of Family PDF eBook |
Author | Shuei-may Chang |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780820433448 |
Nora, a character from Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll House, was a model for liberal-thinking Chinese women during the May Fourth Era of the 1920s and 1930s. Nora-like figures appeared often in modern Chinese literature to illustrate the issue of women's emancipation. Casting Off the Shackles of Family explores the reception and transformation of the Nora theme in the works of Lu Hsün, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and other May Fourth writers. In particular, it uses female heroic journey theories to trace women's pursuit of independence and freedom in modern China.
The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity
Title | The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Charles A. Laughlin |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2008-03-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 082483125X |
The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informal essay writing (xiaopin wen). Laughlin examines the essay both as a widely practiced and influential genre of literary expression and as an important counter-discourse to the revolutionary tradition of New Literature (especially realistic fiction), often viewed as the dominant mode of literature at the time. After articulating the relationship between the premodern traditions of leisure literature and the modern essay, Laughlin treats the various essay styles representing different groups of writers. Each is characterized according to a single defining activity: "wandering" in the case of the Yu si (Threads of Conversation) group surrounding Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren; "learning" with the White Horse Lake group of Zhejiang schoolteachers like Feng Zikai and Xia Mianzun; "enjoying" in the case of Lin Yutang’s Analects group; "dreaming" with the Beijing school. The concluding chapter outlines the impact of leisure literature on Chinese culture up to the present day. The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity dramatizes the vast importance and unique nature of creative nonfiction prose writing in modern China. It will be eagerly read by those with an interest in twentieth-century Chinese literature, modern China, and East Asian or world literatures.
Contemporary Chinese Literature
Title | Contemporary Chinese Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Y. Huang |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2007-11-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230608752 |
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.