A world history of Chinese literature / edited by Yingjin Zhang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhang, Yingjin, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 402 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Yingjin Zhang was Distinguished Professor of Modern Chinese Literature at the University of California, San Diego, as well as Visiting Professor of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His publications include The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature (2022), New Chinese-Language Documentaries (Routledge, 2017), and Chinese Film Stars (Routledge, 2010).

Summary:

"Providing a broad introduction to the area, A World History of Chinese Literature maps the field of Chinese literature across its various worlds. Looking both within - at the world of Chinese literature, its history, linguistic, cultural, local, and regional specificities - and without - at the way Chinese Literature has circulated throughout the world. The thematic focus allows for a broad number of key categories such as authors, genres, genders, regions, as well as innovative explorations of new topics and issues such as inter-arts performativity and transmediation. The sections cover the circulation and reception of China in World Literature, as well as the worlds of: - Chinese Literature Across the Globe - Borders, Oceans and Rainforests - Comparative Literary Genres - Translingual Writers and Scholars - Gender Configurations - Translation and Transmediation With a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection intervenes in current debates on global Chinese literature, Sinophone and Sinoscript studies, and the production and reception of literary works by ethnic Chinese in non-Sinitic languages, as well as Anglophone literature inspired by Chinese literary tradition. It will be of interest to anyone working on or studying Chinese literature, language and culture, as well as World Literatures in relation to China"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Modern Chinese literary historiography / David Wang

Zeitgeist and literature : the reception of Chinese literature in Germany until the first half of the twentieth century / Weigui Fang

Paris and the art of transposition, 1920s-1940s / Angie Chau

Line, loop, constellation : classical Chinese poetry between Sinophone and Anglophone worlds / Luo Hui

A decade apart : bridging the US and China literary systems, 2010-2021 / Jonathan Stalling

Chinese literature at large : Wong Chin Foo's border-crossing writing / Ping Zhu

Engaging the world in Republican literature / Liyan Qin

The rise of author museums in the PRC : how institutions make world literature / Emily Graf

Yi literature : traditional and contemporary / Mark Bender

Queer Sinophone literature in Hong Kong : the politics of worldliness / Alvin K. Wong

Taiwanese literature in the early twenty-first century / Kuei-fen Chiu

Of other (Chinese) spaces : Sinophone literature and the rainforest / Andrea Bachner

Modern Chinese drama across media and worlds : centered on the case of the White snake / Liang Luo

Reportage and the forms of nonfiction art in China / Charles Laughlin

Reading world literature in Chinese science fiction / Lena Henningsen

Ecological critique as world literature : alienation of nature and humans in Chen Qiufan's Waste tide / Ban Wang

Su Manshu's "Broken hairpin" : a romantic tragedy in the hard times / Ping-hui Liao

Qian Zhongshu as a cosmopolitan / Ji Jin

Zhang Ailing and the Cold War cultural geography / Xiaojue Wang

Worlding Jin Yong's martial arts (wuxia) narrative in Three keys / Weijie Song

Yan Lianke's heterotopic imaginaries / Carlos Rojas

Modern intellectual masculinities in transformation / Jun Lei

Nora in China / Ying Hu

Reading women : rethinking a trope in the socialist modern and beyond / Barbara Mittler

Feminine neorealist fiction in the new millennium : voice, trauma, and focalization in Fang Fang's fiction / Li Guo

Frame tales : reading the 1,001 nights in early twentieth-century China / Michael Gibbs Hill

Figuring time : lyricism in contemporary Chinese poetic films / Shengqing Wu

Performance and performativity in modern China / Emily Wilcox

Chinese internet fictions in the transmedia world / Yiwen Wang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 24, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: World history of Chinese literature

ISBN:

9781003167198

1003167195

9781000895063

1000895068

9781000916126

100091612X

OCLC:

1378773369

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