Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming (1472–1529). The result was a series of heretical writings that caught fire among Li Zhi's contemporaries, despite an imperial ban on their publication, and intrigued Chinese audiences long after his death. Translated for the first time into English, Li Zhi's bold challenge to established doctrines will captivate anyone curious about the origins of such subtly transgressive works as the sixteenth-century play The Peony Pavilion or the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber. In A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden), Li Zhi confronts accepted ideas about gender, questions the true identity of history's heroes and villains, and offers his own readings of Confucius, Laozi, and the Buddha. Fond of vivid sentiment and sharp expression, Li Zhi made no distinction between high and low literary genres in his literary analysis. He refused to support sanctioned ideas about morality and wrote stinging social critiques. Li Zhi praised scholars who risked everything to expose extortion and misrule. In this sophisticated translation, English-speaking readers encounter the best of this heterodox intellectual's vital contribution to Chinese thought and culture.

Chinese literature --- History and criticism. --- S16/0190 --- S12/0650 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Literary criticism --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Zajia, eclectici (incl. Wang Chong, Lunheng, Li Zhi)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"This is the first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English. It offers biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of Wang's work. The essays cover topics such as Wang's writing principles, typology of characters, analysis of lexicon, employment of stream-of-consciousness, musicality, relationship to Modernist writers of the West, relationship to Lu Xun, and issues of translating Wang's works into Western languages. There are original contributions by Wang Wenxing illuminating his own writing through a discussion of his way of reading, and a biographical essay by Ch'en Chu-yun, his wife, who shares with the reader moments of their private life and the writing habits of her husband. In addition, this volume appends outlines of Wang's novels and bibliographies that are valuable to both students and scholars in their studies of Wang Wenxing's writing in particular as well as to the understanding of Taiwanese and Chinese literature in general."

Wang, Wenxing, --- Wang, Wen-hsing, --- Wen-Hsing, Wang, --- 王文兴, --- 王文興, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Translations --- History and criticism. --- S05/0221 --- S16/0190 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Literary criticism

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Emotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is spatial, at turns embedding us from without, transporting us somewhere else, or putting us ahead of ourselves. In this book, Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature and culture centered on the idea of emotion as space, which the Chinese call "emotion-realm" (qingjing).Lam traces how the emotion-realm underwent significant transformations from the dreamscape to theatricality in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century China. Whereas medieval dreamscapes delivered the subject into one illusory mood after another, early modern theatricality turned the dreamer into a spectator who is no longer falling through endless oneiric layers but pausing in front of the dream. Through the lens of this genealogy of emotion-realms, Lam remaps the Chinese histories of morals, theater, and knowledge production, which converge at the emergence of sympathy, redefined as the dissonance among the dimensions of the emotion-realm pertaining to theatricality.The book challenges the conventional reading of Chinese literature as premised on interior subjectivity, examines historical changes in the spatial logic of performance through media and theater archaeologies, and ultimately uncovers the different trajectories that brought China and the West to the convergence point of theatricality marked by self-deception and mutual misreading. A major rethinking of key terms in Chinese culture from a comparative perspective, The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China develops a new critical vocabulary to conceptualize history and existence.

Chinese drama --- Space perception in literature --- Emotions in literature. --- Chinese literature. --- History and criticism. --- Emotions in literature --- S16/0190 --- S16/0195 --- History and criticism --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Literary criticism --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Dealing with the central issue of style in literature, this groundbreaking study is a must for sinologists, but also for all students of comparative literature. Michel Hockx takes as a point of departure the observation that most writers of the Republican period adhered to a distinctly traditional practice of gathering in literary societies, while at the same time displaying a marked preference for publishing their works through the modern medium of the literary journal. The first part of the book analyses different types of societies and their journals. The case studies in part two convey the wider impact of literary collectives and journal publications on literary practice. Convincingly breaking with the 'May Fourth' paradigm, the author proposes a radically new way of understanding the relationship between New Literature and other styles of modern Chinese writing.

S16/0170 --- S16/0190 --- Chinese literature --- -Chinese literature --- -China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Literary criticism --- Societies, etc --- Periodicals --- History and criticism --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature --- Chinese literature. --- Societies, etc. --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

S16/0150 --- S16/0190 --- S16/0195 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Literary criticism --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies --- Chinese literature --- Intertextuality. --- Literature and society --- History and criticism --- theory, etc. --- Intertextuality --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- History and criticism&delete& --- theory, etc --- Social aspects