Title: The Columbia companion to modern Chinese literature /
Authors: Denton, Kirk A., 1955-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Chinese literature History and criticism.; Chinese literature History and criticism.; Chinese literature.
Abstract: The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895-1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the effects of censorship, the representation of the Chinese diaspora, the rise and meaning of Sinophone literature, and the role of different media in the development of literature. Subsequent essays focus on authors, their works, and the schools with which they were aligned, featuring key names, titles, and terms in English and in Chinese characters. Woven throughout are pieces on late Qing fiction, popular entertainment fiction, material arts fiction, experimental theater, post-Mao avant-garde poetry, post-martial law fiction from Taiwan, contemporary genre fiction from China, and recent Internet literature. The volume includes essays on such authors as LIang Qichao, Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Change, Jin Yong, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Gao Xingjian, and Yan Lianke. Both a teaching tool and a go-to research companion, this volume is a one-of-a-kind resources for mastering modern literature in the Chinese-speaking world. -- from back cover.
Contents: Modern Chinese literature as an institution : canon and literary history / Yingjin Zhang -- Language and literary form / Charles Laughlin -- Literary communities and the production of literature / Michel Hockx -- Between tradition and modernity : contested classical poetry / Shengqing Wu -- Diaspora in modern Chinese literature / Shuyu Kong -- Sinophone literature / Brian Bernards -- Chinese literature and film adaptation / Hsiu-Chuang Deppman -- The late Qing poetry revolution : Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian, and Chinese literary modernity / Jianhua Chen -- The uses of fiction : Liang Qichao and his contemporaries / Alexander Des Forges -- Late Qing fiction / Ying Hu -- Zhou Shoujuan's love stories and Mandarin ducks and butterflies fiction / Jianhua Chen -- Form and reform : new poetry and the Crescent Moon Society / John A. Crespi -- Reconsidering the origins of modern Chinese women's writing / Amy D. Dooling --^