Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture write by Hongjian Wang. This book was released on 2020-10. Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "European Decadence, a controversial artistic movement that flourished mainly in late-nineteenth-century France and Britain, has inspired several generations of Chinese writers and literary scholars since it was introduced to China in the early 1920s. Translated into Chinese as tuifei, which has strong hedonistic and pessimistic connotations, the concept of Decadence has proven instrumental in multiple waves of cultural rebellion, but has also become susceptible to moralistic criticism. This is the first comprehensive study of decadence in Chinese literature since the early twentieth century. Standing at the intersection of comparative literature and cultural history, it transcends the framework of tuifei by locating European Decadence in its sociocultural context and uses it as a critical lens to examine Chinese Decadent literature and Chinese society. Its in-depth analysis reveals that some Chinese writers and literary scholars creatively appropriated the concept of Decadence for enlightenment purposes or to bid farewell to revolution. This study is also the first to offer a holistic understanding of European Decadence, uncovering both its internal logic and external circumstances, hence excavating its distinct explanatory power. It also sheds fresh light on modern Chinese literature and culture. By examining the careers of seven prominent writers-Yu Dafu, Shao Xunmei, Yu Hua, Su Tong, Wang Shuo, Wang Xiaobo, and Yin Lichuan-this study disentangles apparent contradictions in their writing and reveals the nuances in the changing status of China's modern cultural elite. Last but not least, the book significantly expands the scope of comparative literary studies beyond influence studies and cultural translation by effectively adopting a literary-historical approach-a literary phenomenon is seen at once as a product and an indicator of certain sociocultural conditions, so similar literary phenomena can illuminate comparable contexts"--
Contemporary Chinese Literature
Contemporary Chinese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Chinese Literature write by Y. Huang. This book was released on 2007-11-26. Contemporary Chinese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Decadence in Modern Chinese Poetry
Decadence in Modern Chinese Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decadence in Modern Chinese Poetry write by Paul Manfredi. This book was released on 2001. Decadence in Modern Chinese Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fin de Siècle (decadence) in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation
Fin de Siècle (decadence) in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fin de Siècle (decadence) in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation write by Marián Gálik. This book was released on 2005. Fin de Siècle (decadence) in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lure of the Modern
The Lure of the Modern - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lure of the Modern write by Shumei Shi. This book was released on 2001-04-20. The Lure of the Modern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Quite apart from her contributions as a literary critic, Shu-mei Shih is able to historicize literary developments of the period most persuasively. Her analysis of Shanghai, the city, and the literary movement it spawned, is crafted with great sensitivity to both history and literature. In many ways, it is the most inclusive historical study of modern Chinese literature in its formative period."—Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation "Tracing the spectral production of 'Chinese' identity as it is disseminated globally, Shih boldly moves away from using place (ethnicity) and the body (race) to anchor Chinese identity, to argue that the visual (film) and the verbal (language and linguistics) are the most salient ones in the modern and contemporary historical formation. She succeeds brilliantly."—David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier "This is the most thoroughly researched study of Chinese modernism published to date. The author's theoretical interventions greatly enrich our understanding of colonial modernity and the stakes of comparison in cross-cultural studies. The book is a major contribution to modern Chinese literary studies and comparative literature."—Lydia Liu, editor of Tokens of Exchange
