The Western reinvention of Chinese literature, 1910-2010 : : from Ezra Pound to Maxine Hong Kingston / / edited by Zong-qi Cai, Stephen Roddy.

During much of China’s tumultuous 20th century, May 4th and Maoist iconoclasts regarded their classical literary heritage as a burden to be dislodged in the quest for modernization. This volume demonstrates how the traditions that had deeply impressed earlier generations of Western writers like Goet...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Chinese texts in the world ; volume 1
Physical Description:1 online resource :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction / Stephen Roddy and Zong-qi Cai
  • 1 Walter Benjamin’s China / William Cheung
  • 2 The Chinese Written Character and the Reinvention of Western and Chinese Poetry: Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound / Xiaohui Zhang and Zong-qi Cai
  • 3 A Semiopoetic Re imagi nation of Concreteness: Chinese Ideograms in Haroldo de Campos / Inez Zhou
  • 4 A Poet-Knight-Errant Traveling North: Three Russian Poets’ Translations of Li Bai / Xiaolu Ma
  • 5 Robert Hans van Gulik and the Reinvention of Chinese Detective Fiction / Yunte Huang
  • 6 Rethinking Pearl S. Buck and Tanci Fiction / Yu Zhang
  • 7 Transcultural, Transmedial Reinvention: Shuihu zhuan 水滸傳 (Water Margin) from Chinese Classic to Italian Comic Art / Martina Caschera
  • 8 A Post-Orientalist Turn: Pascal Quignard, Michèle Métail, and China / Xiaofan Amy Li
  • 9 Global South Feminisms in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Patricia Galvão’s Industrial Park / Ana Paulina Lee
  • 10 Sino-Pacifism : China in the Peace Work(s) of Maxine Hong Kingston, Kenneth Rexroth, & Lou Harrison / Stephen Roddy
  • Index.