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Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century
Indiana University Press 2000; US$ 35.15"... 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 ... more...
Die klassische chinesische Prosa
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 224.00The essay, representing the original form of Chinese prose, emerged as masterly literary genre in the late Middle Ages. Next to the poem, the essay embodied the expression of the Chinese mind. In the course of history, it developed from a moral tool to a manifestation of joie de vivre. A leisurely look at the world is therefore the characteristic trait... more...
Die chinesische Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 252.00Die chinesische Literatur kann im 20. Jahrhundert dank der Wandlung Chinas zum Nationalstaat die Isolation überwinden und in den Dialog mit der Weltliteratur eintreten. Keine andere Epoche ist deshalb so gut dokumentiert, wissenschaftlich aufgearbeitet und durch Übersetzungen erschlossen. Dabei lassen sich mehrere deutlich ausgeprägte Phasen unterscheiden:... more...
Die chinesische Erzählung. Vom Altertum bis zur Neuzeit
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 224.00Volume 3 unfolds over 1000 years of Chinese stories. Monika Motsch approaches this segment of world literature from historical, topical and comparative points of view. Chinese stories, rooted in religions, social systems, cultural and linguistic traditions utterly different from their western counterparts, provide an imaginative introduction to Chinese... more...
Der chinesische Roman der ausgehenden Kaiserzeit
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 419.00Volume 2 is the first comprehensive portrayal of the development of the Chinese novel towards the end of the Empire, i.e. from the 16th century to 1911. Novels such as Der Traum der roten Kammer (The Dream of the Red Chamber) and Jin Ping Mei, to name but two of the very few specimens known in the west, belong to... more...
Das traditionelle chinesische Theater
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 210.00As early as the Mongol Age ? at a time when dramatic art had not yet been rediscovered in Europe ? Chinese theatre blossemed. Providing a historical overview, this volume analyses the emerge of the Chinese stage in religion as well as the reception of Chinese theatre in the western world. more...
Remapping the Past
BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00Investigates how writers of Deng Xiaoping's reform era undermined the grand narrative of official history. This book features fictions of history by Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors. It is organized in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography. It covers the themes of memory, language, food, sex, and violence in historical writing. more...
A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature
BRILL 2007; US$ 71.00Covers the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, primarily focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing. more...
Beyond Brushtalk
Hong Kong University Press 2009; US$ 40.00This book explores interactions between Japanese and Chinese writers during the golden age of such exchange, 1919 to 1937. more...
Wang Kuo-wei's Jen-chien Tz'u-hua
Hong Kong University Press 1977; US$ 17.00In the first decade of the twentieth century while other intellectuals were concerned with translating works of political and scientific import into Chinese, Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927) looked to Western philosophy to find answers to the fundamental questions of human life. more...









