Muutke küpsiste eelistusi

History of Contemporary Chinese Literature [Pehme köide]

4.00/5 (3 hinnangut Goodreads-ist)
, Translated by
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 636 pages, kõrgus x laius: 240x160 mm, kaal: 1156 g
  • Sari: Brill's Humanities in China Library 1
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Dec-2008
  • Kirjastus: Brill
  • ISBN-10: 9004173668
  • ISBN-13: 9789004173668
Teised raamatud teemal:
History of Contemporary Chinese LiteratureSuurem pilt
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 636 pages, kõrgus x laius: 240x160 mm, kaal: 1156 g
  • Sari: Brill's Humanities in China Library 1
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Dec-2008
  • Kirjastus: Brill
  • ISBN-10: 9004173668
  • ISBN-13: 9789004173668
Teised raamatud teemal:
Püsilink: https://www.kriso.ee/db/9789004173668.html
"A thorough overview and analysis of the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing"--Provided by publisher.

A reprint from 2007, this very detailed volume recounts the history of contemporary Chinese literature from 1949 to 1999, with a focus on the discourse of socialism and Mainland China. Hong (contemporary Chinese literature, Peking U., China) describes literary fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing, and how literary norms in these genres became dominant and then were superceded. He discusses the characteristics of works, models, and concepts, and the development of literary forms in works by Lao She, Hao Ran, Mu Dan, Hu Feng, and Zhou Yang, among many others, including Mao Zedong, with a separate chapter on women writers. The book was translated by Michael Day, who adds a bibliography, glossary, and index, and translates commonly used terms into English. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Arvustused

There is no doubt that this volume, along with the Humanities in China Library series it inaugurates, should serve as a model for further translations of influential Chinese-language scholarship in years to come. - Rossella Ferrari, SOAS, University of London (China Quarterly)

"Hong (Peking Univ.) offers an excellent, dual-purpose book: it serves as both a textbook and a comprehensive history of Chinese literature from the 1940s to 1996...Highly recommended." - Choice

"...[ A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature's] significance is the scope of its overview of mainland Chinese fiction, poetry, prose, and aspects of theater through the mid-1990s in their documented institutional and critical context... Hong's history is well documented, with annotated citations of both criticisms from the time the works were published and from more recent scholars of the contemporary period, especially Huang Ziping and Zhu Zhai. There is welcome attention to a range of valuable topics, from institutional structures, biographical notes, translations of foreign literature and other texts available through the restricted "internal distribution" (neibu) system of publication, unofficial, underground texts of the Cultural Revolution era, and so forth... [ Translator] Michael M. Day's translation greatly enhances the value of Hong's book as a reference text by adding [ added] a bibliography, glossary, and index and [ shifted] Hong's endnotes to footnotes. [ This text is] a solid and comprehensive survey that will stand as an important reference and source for new scholarship... [ and] could provide a centerpiece for an engaging and productive course on the field." - Edward Gunn, Cornell University (MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright September 2008))

Translator's Note xi
Foreword xiii
PART ONE LITERATURE OF THE 1950's-1970's
Chapter One The 'Transition' in Literature
3
1. The Literary Scene in the 1940's
3
2. The 'Choice' of the Left-Wing Literary World
8
3. The Literary Thought of Mao Zedong
12
4. The Establishment of a 'New Direction for Literature'
17
Chapter Two Literary Norms and the Literary Environment
21
1. The Literary Environment of the 1950's-1970's
21
2. Periodicals and Literary Groups
27
3. Literary Criticism and Campaigns of Criticism
30
4. The Change in the Overall Nature of Writers
33
5. The Cultural Dispositions of 'Core Writers'
36
Chapter Three Contradictions and Conflicts
41
1. Frequent Campaigns of Criticism
41
2. The Continuation of Internal Contradictions Within Left-Wing Literature
47
3. Querying the Norms
51
4. The Nature of Divergence
56
Chapter Four Hidden Poets and Poetry Groupings
64
1. The Choice of Paths for Poetry
64
2. A Universal Artistic Predicament
67
3. The Fate of the 'Nine Leaves' Poets
72
4. The Lot of the 'July Group' Poets
73
Chapter Five The Forms of Poetry
76
1. The 'Realist' Tendency and the Narrative Poetry Tide
76
2. The Artistic Path of Young Poets
81
3. Political Lyricism
85
Chapter Six Themes and Forms of Fiction
90
1. The Division of Fiction Writers
90
2. The Systemization and Classification of Themes
93
3. The State of Typology in Fiction
96
4. The Trend Toward Unity in Form
100
Chapter Seven Rural Area Fiction
104
1. The Contemporary Forms of Rural Area Fiction
104
2. Zhao Shuli and the Shanxi Writers
108
3. The 'History of the Critical Value' of Zhao Shuli
112
4. Liu Qing's History of Pioneering Work
115
Chapter Eight The Narration of History
120
1. Revolutionary Historical Fiction
120
2. The Pursuit of 'Epic Character'
122
3. Red Crag's Mode of Composition
127
4. Another Type of Memory
130
5. The Song Of Youth and the Discussion Surrounding It
135
6. The Historical Novel Li Zicheng
140
Chapter Nine The Plight of Other Forms of Fiction
143
1. Inhibited Fiction
143
2. In Search of New Substitutes
146
3. 'Urban Fiction' and 'Fiction of Industrial Themes'
150
4. Three Family Lane and the Discussion Surrounding It
153
Chapter Ten Beyond the Mainstream
156
1. Non-Mainstream Literature'
156
2. The First 'Heterodoxy'
157
3. 'Hundred Flowers Literature'
160
4. Symbolic Narration
165
5. Permutations of Positions
169
Chapter Eleven Prose
171
1. The Concept of Contemporary Prose
171
2. The 'Renaissance' of Prose
173
3. Prose Writers and Their Creative Patterns
177
4. The Fate of the Miscellaneous Essay
180
5. Memoirs and Historical Biography
183
Chapter Twelve The Theater
186
1. A Survey of Dramatic Art
186
2. Lao She's Teahouse
190
3. Historical Drama and Related Discussion
193
4. The 'High Tide' of Drama
200
Chapter Thirteen Towards 'Cultural Revolution Literature'
203
1. The Literary Campaign of 1958
203
2. The Radical Ideological Trend in Literature and 'The Summary of Minutes'
208
3. Literature's Modes of Existence
212
4. Characteristics of 'Revolutionary Literature'
218
Chapter Fourteen The Re-Construction of 'Classics'
222
1. The Experiment in the Creation of 'Models'
222
2. 'Revolutionary Model Opera'
226
3. The Fiction of Hao Ran and Others
230
4. Difficulties in the Creation of 'Models'
234
Chapter Fifteen A Divided Literary World
236
1. The Public World of Poetry
236
2. Fiction Writing
239
3. The Last Poems of Mu Dan
242
4. The 'Baiyang Marshes Poetry Grouping'
245
5. Hand-Copied Fiction
249
6. The Poetry of Tian'anmen
253
PART TWO LITERATURE SINCE 1976
Chapter Sixteen The Literary Environment During the 1980's
257
1. The Thought Liberation Tide
257
2. Outside Influences During the Open Period
261
3. Division and Regrouping Among Writers
267
4. Literature and the 'Market Economy'
271
Chapter Seventeen A Survey of 1980's Literature
275
1. Process: The First Half of the 1980's
275
2. Process: The Second Half of the 1980's
279
3. A Variety of Literary Forms
285
4. Overall Styles and Stances of Writers
290
Chapter Eighteen Fiction During the First Half of the 1980's
293
1. A Few Concepts of the Fiction Tide
293
2. The Formation and Characteristics of the Tide
297
3. Memory of the Wounds of History
300
4. 'Educated Youth Fiction' in the Reconsideration of History
309
Chapter Nineteen 1980's Poetry
315
1. Poetry Circles After the 'Cultural Revolution'
315
2. The Poetry of the 'Returnees' (A)
319
3. The Poetry of the 'Returnees' (B)
328
Chapter Twenty The New Poetry Tide
335
1. 'Misty Poetry' and the Related Polemic
335
2. Major Writers of 'Misty Poetry'
341
3. The 'Newborn Generation' of the New Poetry Tide
349
4. Other Major Poets
356
Chapter Twenty-One Fiction of the Second Half of the 1980's (A)
366
1. 'Root-Seeking' in Literature
366
2. 'Root-Seeking' and the Artistic Forms of Fiction
370
3. Fiction of the Marketplace and Native Soil
373
4. Outside Groupings and Schools
379
Chapter Twenty-Two Fiction of the Second Half of the 1980's (B)
382
1. Literary Exploration and 'Avant-Garde Fiction'
382
2. A Description of 'New Realism'
387
3. Writers of 'Avant-Garde Fiction'
390
4. Writers of 'New Realism' in Fiction
395
5. Other Major Writers of Fiction
398
Chapter Twenty-Three The Art of Woman Writers
404
1. The Upsurge of Woman Writers
404
2. The Fiction of Woman Writers (A)
408
3. Concepts of 'Women's Literature'
413
4. The Fiction of Woman Writers (B)
416
Chapter Twenty-Four The Art of Prose
420
1. A Survey of the Art of Prose
420
2. Memory of 'History'
424
3. Lyric Prose
428
4. Scholarly Prose and Informal Essays
431
Chapter Twenty-Five The Situation of Literature in the 1990's
437
1. Changes in the Literary Environment
437
2. Important Literary Phenomena
441
3. The Overall Situation of Literature in the 1990's
444
A Chronology of Contemporary Literature in China 451
Postscript 505
Glossary of Terms, Organizations, and Periodicals 507
Bibliography 551
Titles of Works Cited 573
Index 619
Hong Zicheng has been a professor of contemporary Chinese literature in the Chinese Department at Peking University since 1961. His most recent monograph is a revised edition of The History of Contemporary Poetry in China (1993, 2005), and he is also the director of the Contemporary Chinese Literature Institute at Peking University.