Modern Chinese Literary Thought

Writings on Literature, 1893-1945

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Of the 55 essays included, 47 are translated here for the first time, including two essays by Lu Xun.In addition to the selections themselves, the author has provided, in an extensive General Introduction and shorter introductions to the five parts of the book, historical background, a synthesis of current scholarship on modern views of Chinese literature, and an original thesis on the complex formation of Chinese literary modernity. In the author's view, literary discourses were actively reshaped by Chinese writes and critics as responses to deep-set cultural problematics and the socio-historical imperative of the times.The selection of the essays reflects both the mainstream Marxists interpretation of the literary values of modern China and the marginalized views proscribed, at one time or another, by the leftist canon. With both the canonical and the marginal, this collection offers a full spectrum of modern Chinese perceptions of fundamental literary issues: the nature of the creative act; the relationship between the literary text and reality; the moral, social, and political role of literature; and the filiation of language, literary form, and content.In presenting the Western reading with a Chinese discourse (in the more traditional sense of the term) about literature, the editor attempts to construct a cultural context for the production of texts in modern Chinese literature. Why did modern Chinese writers write? What goals did they have? How did they think about literature and its relation to its audience and the world? To read the response to these questions is to deepen our understanding of the experience of modernity that lies at the root of works of modern Chinese literature.The selections were translated by 33 leading scholars in the field of modern Chinese literature.

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Utgivningsdatum1996-01-01
Mått152 x 229 x 38 mm
Vikt980 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor572
FörlagStanford University Press
ISBN9780804725583

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Preface; General Introduction Kirk A. Denton; Part I. The Late Quing Period 1893-1911: 1. Introduction; 2. Preface to Poems from the Hut in the Human World Huang Zunixian; 3. Foreword to the publication of political novels in translation Liang Qichao; 4. On the relationship between fiction and the government of the people Liang Qichao; 5. Preface to Oliver Twist Lin Shu; 6. Preface to part one of David Copperfield Lin Shu; 7. Miscellaneous notes on literature (excerpts) Liu Shipei; 8. Incidental remarks on literature Wang Guowei; 9. On the power of Mara poetry Lu Xun; Part II. The May Fourth Period 1915-1925: 10. Introduction; 11. Some modest proposals for the reform of literature Hu Shi; 12. On literary revolution Chen Duxiu; 13. Nightmare Lin Shu; 14. Humane literature Zhuo Zuoren; 15. On the literary arts (excerpts) Ye Shengtao; 16. Art and life Xu Zhimo; 17. Replacing religion with aesthetic education Cai Yuanpei; 18. Literature and life Mao Dun; 19. On photography Lu Xun; 20. Preface to The Sorrows of Young Werther Guo Moruo; 21. Fusing with nature Liang Shiqiu; 22. A critique of the new culturists Mei Guangdi; 23. Women and literature Zhou Zuoren; 24. On 'literary criticism' Bing Zin; 25. My opinions on creativity Lu Yin; 26. Preface to Call to Arms Lu Xun; 27. Remarks on the publication of Saturday Wang Dungen; 28. Congratulations to Happy Magazine Zhou Shoujuan; 29. The mission of the new literature Cheng Fangwu; Part III. Revolutionary Literature 1923-1930: 30. Introduction; 31. Class struggle in literature Yu Dafu; 32. From a literary revolution to revolutionary literature Cheng Fangwu; 33. The bygone age of Ah Q Qian Zingcun; 34. On reading Ni Huanzhi Mao Dun; 35. Literature and revolution Liang Shiqiu; 36. Dai Wangshu's poetic literature Dai Wangshu; 37. Form in poetry Wen Yiduo; 38. The divergence of art and politics Lu Xun; 39. Thoughts on realism Zhou Yang; 40. Realism: a 'correction' Hu Feng; Part IV. The Debate on Literary Freedom1932-1935: 41. Introduction; 42. Do not encroach upon literary art Hu Qiuyuan; 43. Regarding the Literary News and Hu Qiuyuan's literary arguments Su Wen; 44. Freedom for literature but not the writer Qu Qiubai; 45. On the 'third category' Lu Xun; 46. Preface to Public Cemetery Mu Shiying; 47. A record of my own inspiration Li Jinfa; 48. Literature and life Zhu Guangquian; Part V. The Period of National Crisis 1936-1945: 49. Introduction; 50. On national defense literature Zhou Yang; 51. What do the broad masses demand of literature Hu Feng; 52. The question of popular literature and art Qu Qiubai; 53. Excerpts from Mao Zedong Mao Zedong; 54. Literature and art for the masses and the use of traditional forms Mao Dun; 55. My writing Zhang Ailing; 56. On writers Qian Zhongshu; 57. Universal or restricted? Shen Congwen; 58. We need the Zawen essay Ding Ling; 59. Talks at the Yan'an forum on literature and art Mao Zedong; 60. Realism today Hu Feng; Reference matter.