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Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Centuryby Pang-Yuan Chi; David Der-wei Wang
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 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... more...
The Monster That Is Historyby David Der-Wei Wang
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese?often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude?this book places its arguments along two related axes:... more...
Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948by Yan Haiping
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 39.95Presents the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism within the bourgeois feminist selfhood. This book looks at Chinese women's literary and artistic achievements and the degree to which Chinese women writers re-invent their lives along with their writings. It is useful for scholars of feminist theory and theatre studies. more...
Early Mystics in Turkish Literatureby Mehmed Fuad Koprulu
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 160.00Sheds light on the early development of Turkish literature and attempts to show the continuity in this development between Turks and Anatolia. This book addresses this topic within the context of other subjects, including Sufism, Islam and the genesis of Turkish culture in the Muslim world. It is a contribution to the study of Turkish literature. more...
Women, War, Domesticityby Nicole Huang
BRILL 2005; US$ 123.00This book studies a burgeoning middlebrow culture championed and sustained by a group of women writers, editors, and publishers who began their careers in Shanghai in the early 1940s when the city entered into an era of total occupation by the Japanese. more...
Contested Modernities in Chinese Literatureby Charles A. Laughlin
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00This book is a significant gathering of ideas on the subject of modern Chinese literature and culture of the past several years. more...
The Subversive Self in Modern Chinese Literatureby Christopher T. Keaveney
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 80.00Both as an intermediary to Western culture and as a cultural force in itself, Japan had a significant impact on the development of modern Chinese literature. However, for the most part, the links of this Sino-Japanese literary relationship has only just begun to receive scholarly attention, making this book's exploration of Japan's role in shaping Chinese cultural modernity an important addition to the literature. By comparing and contrasting what appear to be similar narrative modes between the shishosetsu and work coming out of the Creation Society, Keaveney explores how Chinese writers both appropriated and reconceptualized this Japanese approach. By letting their work retain both self-referentiality and articulations of social concerns,... more...
Theaters of Desireby Patricia Sieber
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 105.00This work offers a way of understanding early Chinese song-drama by adding a Chinese perspective to the scholarship on print culture, authorship and the regulatory discourses of desire. more...
Women's Literary Feminism in 20th Century Chinaby Amy D. Dooling
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00This is a critical inquiry into the connections between emergent feminist ideologies in China and the production of "modern" women's writing from the demise of the last imperial dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China. It accentuates both well-known and under-represented literary voices from Qiu Jin and Lu Yin to Bai Wein, who intervened in the gender debates of their generation as well as contextualizes the strategies used in imagining alternative stories of female expe more...
New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetryby C. Lupke
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 90.00This book brings together fresh research from experts on contemporary Chinese poetry, built upon one of the most glorious poetic traditions of any civilization in the world yet historically neglected by scholars in English. This comprehensive volume offers readable and provocative treatments of many of the most important Chinese poets of our age. more...