A New Literary History of Modern China / / ed. by David Der-wei Wang.

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• MitwirkendeR: Admussen, Nick,; Ain-Ling, Wong,; Allen, Joseph R.,; Anyi, Wang,; Bachner, Andrea,; Bender, Mark,; Berry, Michael,; Braester, Yomi,; Capehart, Clint,; Chan, Kwok Kou Leonard,; Chang, Kang-I Sun,; Chang, Sung-Sheng Yvonne,; Cheah, Pheng,; Chen, Guangchen,; Chen, Jianhua,; Chen, Jingling,; Chen, Lingchei Letty,; Chen, Xiaomei,; Cheng, Eileen J.,; Chou, Katherine Hui-Ling,; Chow, Eileen Cheng-Yin,; Chow, Rey,; Chun, Tarryn Li-Min,; Conceison, Claire,; Crespi, John A.,; Crevel, Maghiel van,; Daruvala, Susan,; Davies, Gloria,; Davis, Darrell William,; Denton, Kirk A.,; Dooling, Amy,; Dung, Kai-Cheung,; Egan, Susan Chan,; Elman, Benjamin A.,; Fiss, Géraldine,; Fong, Grace S.,; Forges, Alexander Des,; Gentz, Natascha,; Groppe, Alison M.,; Hamm, John Christopher,; Hanan, Patrick Dewes,; Harris, Kristine,; Hartley, Lauran R.,; Hashimoto, Satoru,; He, Man,; Heinrich, Ari Larissa,; Hill, Michael Gibbs,; Hing, Chong Fah,; Hockx, Michel,; Hon, Tze-Ki,; Hsiao-Yen, Peng,; Hsin, Chu T’ien,; Hua, Yu,; Huang, Alexa,; Huang, Hsinya,; Hui, Wang,; Huters, Theodore,; Idema, Wilt L.,; Inwood, Heather,; Ishii, Tsuyoshi,; Jiang, David,; Jiang, Hui,; Jianmei, Liu,; Jin, Ha,; Jin, Huan,; Jones, Andrew F.,; Juan, Li,; Kan, Har Ye,; Keulemans, Paize,; King, Richard,; Kinkley, Jeffrey C.,; Kleeman, Faye Yuan,; Klein, Lucas,; Kwan, Uganda Sze Pui,; Lai, John T. P.,; Laughlin, Charles A.,; Lee, Casey,; Lee, Haiyan,; Lee, Leo Ou-Fan,; Lei, Ying,; Li, Jie,; Li, Sher-Shiueh,; Li, Wai-Yee,; Liao, Ping-Hui,; Lin, Pei-Yin,; Link, Perry,; Liqun, Qian,; Liu, Petrus,; Lupke, Christopher,; Malmqvist, N. Göran D.,; McDougall, Bonnie S.,; Owen, Stephen,; Pingyuan, Chen,; Qian, Ying,; Rodekohr, Andy,; Rojas, Carlos,; Ruru, Li,; Schonebaum, Andrew,; Shen, Shuang,; Shernuk, Kyhle,; Shernuk, Kyle,; Shu, Yunzhong,; Sihe, Chen,; Skerratt, Brian,; Smith, Norman,; So, Richard Jean,; Song, Mingwei,; Song, Weijie,; Suher, Dylan,; Tan, E. K.,; Tang, Xiaobing,; Teng, Emma J.,; Teo, Stephen,; Thornber, Karen L.,; Tian, Xiaofei,; Tong, Q. S.,; Tsai, Chien-Hsin,; Tsu, Jing,; Volland, Nicolai,; Wagner, Rudolf G.,; Wang, Ao,; Wang, Ban,; Wang, Chih-ming,; Wang, David Der-Wei,; Wang, David Der-wei,; Wang, Pu,; Wang, Xiaojue,; Weinstein, John B.,; Widmer, Ellen,; Woesler, Martin,; Wong, Lawrence Wang-Chi,; Wong, Mary Shuk-Han,; Wu, Shengqing,; Xiaohong, Xia,; Xu, Lanjun,; Yan, Mo,; Yan, Wei,; Yao, Steven,; Yeh, Catherine Vance,; Yeh, Emilie Yueh-Yu,; Yeh, Michelle,; Ying, Hu,; Yip, Wai-lim,; Young, Helen Praeger,; Zhang, Yingjin,
• HerausgeberIn: Wang, David Der-wei,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1032 p.) :; 21 halftones, 1 map

Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and complete the world—a process of “worlding” that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A New Literary History of Modern China looks beyond state-sanctioned works and official narratives to rev...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Worlding Literary China
• The Multiple Beginnings Of Modern Chinese “Literature”
• Dutch Plays, Chinese Novels, And Images Of An Open World
• The Revival of Letters in Nineteenth-Century China
• Legacies in clash: anticipatory modernity versus imaginary nostalgia
• Robert morrison’s chinese literature and translated modernity
• Gongyang imaginary and looking to the confucian past for reform
• Flowers in the mirror and chinese women: “at home in the world”
• Utter disillusion and acts of repentance in late classical poetry
• In search of a chinese utopia: the taiping rebellion as a literary event
• My life in china and america and transpacific translations
• Two chinese poets are homeless at home
• Foreign devils, chinese sorcerers, and the politics of literary anachronism
• Women writers in early modern china
• Wang tao lands in hong kong
• Media, literature, and early chinese modernity
• The politics of translation and the romanization of chinese into a world language
• In lithographic journals, text and image flourish on the same page
• Lives of shanghai flowers, dialect fiction, and the genesis of vernacular modernity
• The “new novel” before the rise of the new novel
• Qiu feng jia and the poetics of tears
• Language reform and its discontents
• Oracle bones, that dangerous supplement . . .
• Liang qichao’s suspended translation and the future of chinese new fiction
• Fallen leaves, grieving cicadas, and poetic mourning after the boxer rebellion
• Eliza crosses the ice—and an ocean—and uncle tom’s cabin arrives in china
• Sherlock holmes comes to china
• Imagining Modern Utopia By Rethinking Ancient Historiography
• Wen And The “First History(-Ies) Of Chinese Literature”
• Münchhausen Travels To China Early In The Summer Of 1905, The Young Writer
• Zhang Taiyan And The Revolutionary Politics Of Literary Restoration
• Global Theatrical Spectacle In Tokyo And Shanghai
• The Death Of China’S First Feminist
• The Death Of China’S First Feminist
• From Mara To Nobel
• A Classical Poetry Society Through Revolutionary Times
• Revolution And Love
• The Book Of Datong As A Novel Of Utopia
• Hu Shi And His Experiments
• Inventing Youth In Modern China
• Zhou Yucai Writes “A Madman’S Diary” Under The Pen Name Lu Xun
• Modern Monkhood
• The Big Misnomer: “May Fourth Literature”
• Clinical Diagnosis For Taiwan
• Turning Babbitt Into Bai Bide
• Xiang Kairan’S Monkey
• New Culture And The Pedagogy Of Writing
• Xu Zhimo And Chinese Romanticism
• Enchantment With The Voice
• Lu Xun And Tombstones
• Mei Lanfang, The Denishawn Dancers, And World Theater
• “This Spirit Of Independence And Freedom Of Thought . . . Will Last For Eternity With Heaven And Earth”
• The Legend Of A Modern Woman Writer Of Classical Verse
• Ba Jin Begins To Write Anarchist Novels
• Revolution And Rhine Wine
• Genealogies Of Romantic Disease
• Gender, Commercialism, And The Literary Market
• The Author As Celebrity
• Practical Criticism In China
• Invitation To A Beheading
• The Chinese League Of Left-Wing Writers, 1930–1936
• Hei Ying’S “Pagan Love Song”
• Roots Of Peace And War, Beauty And Decay, Are Sought In China’S Good Earth
• Recollections Of Women Soldiers On The Long March
• On Language, Literature, And The Silent Screen
• The Execution Of Qu Qiubai
• The Child And The Future Of China In The Legend Of Sanmao
• Crossing The River And Ding County Experimental Theater
• One Day In China
• Resonances Of A Visual Image In The Early Twentieth Century
• Lu Xun And The Afterlife Of Texts
• Cao Yu And His Drama
• A Chinese Poet’S Wartime Dream
• William Empson, W. H. Auden, And Modernist Poetry In Wartime China
• The Lost Novel Of The Nanjing Massacre
• The Poetics And Politics Of Neo-Sensationism
• Between Chineseness And Modernity: The Film Art Of Fei Mu
• Chinese Revolution And Western Literature
• Eileen Chang In Hong Kong
• In War She Writes
• Taiwan’S Genius Lü Heruo
• The Cultural And Political Significance Of Mao Zedong’S Talks At The Yan’An Forum On Literature And Art
• The Genesis Of Peasant Revolutionary Literature
• The North Has Mei Niang
• Ideologies Of Sound In Chinese Modernist Poetry
• The Enigma Of Yu Dafu And Nanyang Literature
• On Literature And Collaboration
• On Memory And Trauma: From The 228 Incident To The White Terror
• The Socratic Tradition In Modern China
• The Life Of A Chinese Literature Textbook
• Shen Congwen’S Journey: From Asylum To Museum
• A New Time Consciousness: The Great Leap Forward
• The Genesis Of Literary History In New China
• Transnational Socialist Literature In China
• A Provocation To Literary History
• Salvaging Chinese Script And Designing The Mingkwai Typewriter
• Lao She And America
• The Emergence Of Regional Opera On The National Stage
• Lu Ling, Hu Feng, And Literary Persecution
• Hong Kong Modernism And I
• Zhou Shoujuan’S Romance À La Mandarin Ducks And Butterflies
• Orphans Of Asia
• Sino-Muslims And China’S Latin New Script: A Reunion Between Diaspora And Nationalism
• A Monumental Model For Future Perfect Theater
• Mao Zedong Publishes Nineteen Poems And Launches The New Folk Song Movement
• On The Song Of Youth And Literary Bowdlerization
• Hunger And The Chinese Malaysian Leftist Narrative
• Three Ironic Moments In My Mother Ru Zhijuan’S Literary Career
• The Legacies Of Jaroslav Průšek And C. T. Hsia
• Fu Lei And Fou Ts’Ong: Cultural Cosmopolitanism And Its Price
• The “Red Pageant” And China’S First Atomic Bomb
• Red Prison Files
• Modernism Versus Nativism In 1960S Taiwan
• The Specter Of Liu Shaoqi
• The Red Lantern: Model Plays And Model Revolutionaries
• Jin Yong Publishes The Smiling, Proud Wanderer In Ming Pao
• The Angel Island Poems: Chinese Verse In The Modern Diaspora
• In Search Of Qian Zhongshu
• A Subtle Encounter: Tête-Bêche And In The Mood For Love
• The Mysterious Death Of Bruce Lee, Chinese Nationalism, And Cinematic Legacy
• Yang Mu Negotiates Between Classicism And Modernism
• Poems From Underground
• A Modern Taiwanese Innocents Abroad
• Confessions Of A State Writer: The Novelist Hao Ran Offers A Self-Criticism
• Chen Yingzhen On The White Terror In Taiwan
• Liu Binyan And The Price Of Relevance
• A Tale Of Two Cities
• Food, Diaspora, And Nostalgia
• Discursive Heat: Humanism In 1980S China
• The Advent Of Modern Tibetan Free-Verse Poetry In The Tibetan Language
• Literary Representation Of The White Terror And Rupture In Mid-Twentieth- Century Taiwan
• Searching For Roots In Literature And Film
• The Writer And The Mad(Wo)Man
• The Birth Of China’S Literary Avant-Garde
• Gao Xing Jian’S Pursuit Of Freedom In The Spirit Of Zhuangzi
• “Rewriting Literary History” In The New Era Of Liberated Thought
• Anything Chinese About This Suicide?
• The Song That Rocked Tiananmen Square
• Trauma And Cinematic Lyricism
• From The Margins To The Mainstream: A Tale Of Two Wangs
• Meng Jinghui And Avant-Garde Chinese Theater
• The Death Of Teresa Teng
• Formal Experiments In Qiu Miaojin’S “Lesbian I Ching”
• Modern China As Seen From An Island Perspective
• “The First Modern Asian Gay Novel”
• Hong Kong’S Literary Retrocession In Three Fantastical Novels
• Representing The Sinophone, Truly: On Tsai Ming-Liang’S I Don’T Want To Sleep Alone
• The Silversmith Of Fiction
• The Poet In The Machine: Hsia Yü’S Analog Poetry Enters The Digital Age
• Sixteen-Year- Old Han Han Roughs Up The Literary Scene
• Resurrecting A Postlapsarian Pagoda In A Postrevolutionary World
• Wolf Totem And Nature Writing
• Chinese Verse Going Viral: “Removing The Shackles Of Poetry”
• Suddenly Coming Into My Own
• Writer-Wanderer Li Yongping And Chinese Malaysian Literature
• Chinese Media Fans Express Patriotism Through Parody Of Japanese Web Comic
• Ang Lee’S Adaptation, Pretense, Transmutation
• Encountering Shakespeare’S Plays In The Sinophone World
• Defending The Dignity
• Of The Novel
• Minority Heritage In The Age Of Multiculturalism
• Ye Si And Lyricism
• Lightning Strikes Twice: “Mother Tongue” Minority Poetry
• Chinese Science Fiction Presents The Posthuman Future
• Contributors
• Illustration Credits
• Index