Chinese literature in the second half of a modern century : a critical survey
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Chinese literature in the second half of a modern century : a critical survey
Indiana University Press, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-286) and index
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Description
" . . . an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." - Choice
"This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949 . . . discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and societal issues in modern Chinese literature." -Library Journal
This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the enunciative endeavors, ranging from ideological treatises to avant-garde experiments, that inform the polyphonic discourse of Chinese cultural politics; (3) to observe the historical factors that enacted the interplay of literary (post)modernities across the Chinese communities in the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas.
Table of Contents
Preface, Pang-yuan Chi
Editors' Note
Introduction, David Der-wei Wang
1. Farewell to the Gods: Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory's Fin-de-siecle Struggle, Zaifu Liu
2. Taiwan Literature: 1945-1999, Pang-yuan Chi
3. Colonialism, the Cold War, and Marginal Space: The Existential Condition of Five Decades of Hong Kong Literature, William Tay
4. Reinventing National History: Communist and Anti-communist Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century, David Der-wei Wang
5. The School and the Hospital: On the Logics of Socialist Realism, Su Wei
6. Modernism and Its Discontents: Taiwanese Literature in the 1960s, Ko Ch'ing-ming
7. Beyond "Nativist Realism": Taiwan Fiction in the 1970s and 1980s, Yang Chao
8. Searching for Roots: Anticultural Return in Mainland Chinese Literature of the 1980s, Li Qingxi
9. Re-membering the Cultural Revolution: Chinese Avant-garde Literature of the 1980s, Wu Liang
10. Resistance to Modernity: Reflections on Mainland Chinese Literary Criticism in the 1980s, Li Tuo
11. Feminism and Female Taiwan Novelists in the 1980s and 1990s
12. Breaking Open: Chinese Women's Writing the Late 1980s and 1990s, Jingyuan Zhang
13. The Cultural Imaginary of a City: Reading Hong Kong Through Xi Xi, Stephen C. K. Chan
14. Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism/Post-Mao- Dengism?, Xiaobin Yang
15. Death of the Poet: Poetry and Society in Contemporary China and Taiwan, Michelle Yeh
Appendix: A Bibliographical Survey of Publications on Chinese Literature from 1949 to 1999, Jeffrey C. Kinkley
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