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Literary societies of Republican China / edited by Kirk A. Denton and Michel Hockx.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese literature--Societies, etc.
- Chinese literature.
- Chinese literature--20th century--Periodicals.
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- China--History--May Fourth movement, 1919.
- China.
- History.
- Genre:
- Periodicals.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 591 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2008]
- Summary:
- Literary Societies of Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era of 1911-1949. Wedged between the fall of the Empire and the founding of the Communist state, the Republican period witnessed enormous social, political, and cultural changes. Kirk A. Denton and Michel Hockx have collected thirteen essays by eleven scholars from North America, Europe, and Asia that present detailed discussions of particular literary groups active in the Republican-era literary scene. Some of these groups are familiar representatives of what used to be considered the "mainstream," while others represent literary styles that have hitherto been considered "marginal" or that have been ignored altogether. Each of the essays in this volume looks in detail at literary societies both as producers of literary views and texts and as organizations with sometimes very complex social structures. The result is a unique blend of literary, cultural, and social history, unrivalled in any English-language scholarship on China to date.
- Contents:
- Contested fengya : classical-style poetry clubs in early Republican China / Shengqing Wu
- The Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School / Xueqing Xu
- The Chinese Literary Association (Wenxue yanjiu hui) / Michel Hockx
- The Creation Society (1921-1930) / Xiaobing Tang with Michel Hockx
- Reconsidering Xueheng : neo-conservatism in early Republican China / Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker
- The Yusi society / Mark Miller
- The Analects group and the genre of xiaopin / Charles A. Laughlin
- Tian Han and the Southern Society phenomenon : networking the personal, communal, and cultural / Xiaomei Chen
- Lions and tigers in groups : The Crescent Moon School in modern Chinese literary history / Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
- A literary organization with a clear political agenda : the Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers, 1930-1936 / Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
- Yuefeng : a literati journal of the 1930s / Susan Daruvala
- The All-China Resistance Association of Writers and Artsists / Charles A. Laughlin
- The Hu Feng Group : genealogy of a literary school / Kirk A. Denton.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-558) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0739119346
- 9780739119341
- 0739119338
- 9780739119334
- OCLC:
- 227149238
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