This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now.
FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand NewThis wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. It reviews major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English and brings attention to previously neglected, important areas.
This wide-ranging and balanced Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, including mainland China, Taiwan, and other Chinese speaking regions, from the 1840s to the present day. By reviewing major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English since the mid-twentieth century, this collaborative project brings attention to previously neglected areas such as late Qing literature, Sinophone literature, translated literature, ethnic minority literature, popular genres, and Internet writing. A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature surveys topics under four categories: history and geography, genre and types, cultures and media, and issues and debates. These provide a representation of the best interdisciplinary scholarship, offering a revaluation of key issues and moving the critical discussion forward. The international set of contributors, including leading scholars from mainland China and Hong Kong, bring insights from a broad range of disciplines covering Chinese studies, cultural studies, gender studies, literary studies, and media studies. The result is an improved understanding of the fast-developing field of modern Chinese literature as artistic projects, cultural institutions, social practices, ideological discourses, and scholarly endeavours.
This wide-ranging and balanced Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, including mainland China, Taiwan, and other Chinese speaking regions, from the 1840s to the present day. By reviewing major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English since the mid-twentieth century, this collaborative project brings attention to previously neglected areas such as late Qing literature, Sinophone literature, translated literature, ethnic minority literature, popular genres, and Internet writing. A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature surveys topics under four categories: history and geography, genre and types, cultures and media, and issues and debates. These provide a representation of the best interdisciplinary scholarship, offering a revaluation of key issues and moving the critical discussion forward. The international set of contributors, including leading scholars from mainland China and Hong Kong, bring insights from a broad range of disciplines covering Chinese studies, cultural studies, gender studies, literary studies, and media studies. The result is an improved understanding of the fast-developing field of modern Chinese literature as artistic projects, cultural institutions, social practices, ideological discourses, and scholarly endeavours.
Yingjin Zhang is Professor of Chinese Studies and Comparative Literature at University of California, San Diego, USA, and Visiting Chair Professor of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is the author of, amongst others, Screening China (2002), Chinese National Cinema (2004), and Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China (2010). He is co-author of Encyclopedia of Chinese Film (1998), and New Chinese-Language Documentaries (2015), and editor of A Companion to Chinese Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv 1 General Introduction 1
Yingjin Zhang Part I History and Geography 39 2 Literary Modernity in Perspective 41
Zhang Longxi 3 Late Qing Literature, 1890s–1910s 54
Hu Ying 4 War, Revolution, and Urban Transformations: Chinese Literature of the Republican Era, 1920s–1940s 67
Nicole Huang 5 Socialist Literature Driven by Radical Modernity, 1950–1980 81
Chen Xiaoming (translated by Qin Liyan) 6 Thirty Years of New Era Literature: From Elitization to De-Elitization 98
Tao Dongfeng (translated by Angie Chau) 7 Building a Modern Institution of Literature: The Case of Taiwan 116
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 8 Sinophone Literature 134
Ping-hui Liao Part II Genres and Types 149 9 Modern Poetry in Chinese: Challenges and Contingencies 151
Michelle Yeh 10 Modern Chinese Theater Study and its Century-Long History 167
Xiaomei Chen 11 Literariness (Wen) and Character (Zhi): From Baihua to Yuluti and Dazhongyu 181
Qian Suoqiao 12 Fiction in Modern China: Modernity through Storytelling 195
Yiyan Wang 13 Modern China's Translated Literature 214
Zha Mingjian 14 Writing Chinese Feminism(s) 228
Amy Dooling 15 The World of Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction: From Shanghai Express to Rivers and Lakes of Knights-Errant 244
Yi Zheng 16 Ethnic Minority Literature 261
Mark Bender Part III Cultures and Media 277 17 Use in Uselessness: How Western Aesthetics Made Chinese Literature More Political 279
Ban Wang 18 The Linguistic Turns and Literary Fields in Twentieth-Century China 295
Jianhua Chen 19 The Significance of the Northeastern Writers in Exile, 1931–1945 312
Haili Kong 20 Writing Cities 326
Weijie Song 21 Divided Unities of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture: The Modern Girl, Woodcuts, and Contemporary Painter–Poets 343
Paul Manfredi 22 All the Literature That's Fit to Print: A Print Culture Perspective on Modern Chinese Literature 360
Nicolai Volland 23 The Proliferating Genre: Web-Based Time-Travel Fiction and the New Media in Contemporary China 379
Jin Feng Part IV Issues and Debates 395 24 The Persistence of Form: Nation, Literary Movement, and the Fiction of Ng Kim Chew 397
Carlos Rojas 25 The Modern Girl in Modern Chinese Literature 411
Tze]lan D. Sang 26 Body as Phenomenon: A Brief Survey of Secondary Literature of the Body in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 424
Ari Larissa Heinrich 27 The Post-Maoist Politics of Memory 434
Yomi Braester 28 Writing Historical Traumas in the Everyday 452
Lingchei Letty Chen 29 A Brief Overview of Chinese-Language Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 465
Chen Sihe (translated by Alvin Ka Hin Wong) 30 Toward a Typology of Literary Modernity in China: A Survey of English Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 483
Yingjin Zhang Bibliography 501 Glossary 503 Index 548
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