The Literary Field of Twentieth Century China - 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 Literary Field of Twentieth Century China write by Michel Hockx. This book was released on 2019-05-08. The Literary Field of Twentieth Century China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At least since the late nineteenth century onwards, Chinese literature as a form of cultural production has been taking place within a specific social space, including writers, critics, journalists, editors, publishers, printers and booksellers. Focusing on people as well as on texts, and looking at what writers did as well as at what they wrote, the essays in this volume draw a vivid and variegated picture of Chinese literary life throughout the modern period. The book treats differences between periods, but also traces the continuities that have characterised modern Chinese literary practice and its discourses from the beginning to the present, including ties of allegiance, utilisation of 'the people' and appropriation of the west. The book places modern Chinese literature firmly within its socio-historical context, thereby increasing the reader's awareness of the hidden assumptions behind literary production. In doing so, it opens new perspectives on Chinese culture as a whole, and on literature as a cosmopolitan concept.
The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century
The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century - 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 Literature of China in the Twentieth Century write by Bonnie S. McDougall. This book was released on 1997. The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The written culture of 20th-century China has only recently begun to receive sustained attention from Western readers and critics. This book presents illuminating information on writers, audiences, and the impact of various literary works on politics and culture--and provides a unique window on Chinese society.
The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century
The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century - 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 Literature of China in the Twentieth Century write by Bonnie S. McDougall. This book was released on 1997. The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A historical survey of 20th-century Chinese literature, this book chronicles the writers who - continuing in the Chinese tradition of using literature to exert moral, social, and political leadership - debated the nature, development and future of Chinese society.
The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity
The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity - 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 Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity write by Charles A. Laughlin. This book was released on 2008-03-06. The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society
Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society - 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 Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society write by Tonglin Lu. This book was released on 1993-05-13. Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with." — Confucius Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as the equivalent of "inferior men." Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution periods.
