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Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
Forgive the shameless self-promotion. I am happy to announce that my edited book, The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature (Columbia UP, 2016), has been published. The book is an off-shoot of the China section of the 2003 Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literatures, but it has 12 completely new essays and all the other essays have been revised and updated. It reflects the hard work, vast knowledge, and clarity of mind of many scholars (see table of contents below). The book was designed to be used as a text for undergraduate courses in modern Chinese literature. I hope some of you will consider using it for your courses.
Kirk A. Denton
Description
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the effects of censorship, the representation of the Chinese diaspora, the rise and meaning of Sinophone literature, and the role of different media in the development of literature. Subsequent essays focus on authors, their works, and the schools with which they were aligned, featuring key names, titles, and terms in English and in Chinese characters. Woven throughout are pieces on late Qing fiction, popular entertainment fiction, martial arts fiction, experimental theater, post-Mao avant-garde poetry, post–martial law fiction from Taiwan, contemporary genre fiction from China, and recent Internet literature. The volume includes essays on such authors as Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, Jin Yong, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Gao Xingjian, and Yan Lianke. Both a teaching tool and a go-to research companion, this volume is a one-of-a-kind resource for mastering modern literature in the Chinese-speaking world.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chronology of Major Historical Events
Part I. Thematic Essays
1. Historical Overview, by Kirk A. Denton
2. Modern Chinese Literature as an Institution: Canon and Literary History, by Yingjin Zhang
3. Language and Literary Form, by Charles Laughlin
4. Literary Communities and the Production of Literature, by Michel Hockx
5. Between Tradition and Modernity: Contested Classical Poetry, by Shengqing Wu
6. Diaspora in Modern Chinese Literature, by Shuyu Kong
7. Sinophone Literature, by Brian Bernards
8. Chinese Literature and Film Adaptation, by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Part II. Authors, Works, Schools
9. The Late Qing Poetry Revolution: Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian, and Chinese Literary Modernity", by Jianhua Chen
10. The Uses of Fiction: Liang Qichao and His Contemporaries, by Alexander DesForges
11. Late Qing Fiction, by Ying Hu
12. Zhou Shoujuan's Love Stories and Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies Fiction, by Jianhua Chen
13. Form and Reform: New Poetry and the Crescent Moon Society, by John Crespi
14. Reconsidering the Origins of Modern Chinese Women's Writing, by Amy Dooling
15. The Madman That Was Ah Q: Tradition and Modernity in Lu Xun's Fiction, by Ann Huss
16. Romantic Sentiment and the Problem of the Subject: Yu Dafu, by Kirk A. Denton
17. Feminism and Revolution: The Work and Life of Ding Ling, by Jingyuan Zhang
18. The Debate on Revolutionary Literature, by Charles Laughlin
19. Mao Dun, the Modern Novel, and the Representation of Women, by Hilary Chung
20. Ba Jin's Family: Fiction, Representation, and Relevance, by Nicholas Kaldis
21. Chinese Modernism: The New Sensationists, by Steven L. Riep
22. Shen Congwen and Imagined Native Communities, by Jeffrey Kinkley
23. Xiao Hong's Field of Life and Death, by Amy Dooling
24. Performing the Nation: Chinese Drama and Theater, by Xiaomei Chen
25. Cao Yu and Thunderstorm, by Jonathan Nobel
26. The Reluctant Nihilism of Lao She's Rickshaw, by Thomas Moran
27. Eileen Chang and Alternative Wartime Narrative, by Nicole Huang
28. Literature and Politics: Mao Zedong's "Yan'an Talks" and Party Rectification, by Kirk A. Denton
29. Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang: A Literary Marriage, by Christopher Rea
30. Revolutionary Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism: The Song of Youth, by Ban Wang
31. The Hundred Flowers: Qin Zhaoyang, Wang Meng, and Liu Binyan, by Richard King
32. Cold War Fiction from Taiwan and the Modernists, by Christopher Lupke
33. Nativism and Localism in Taiwanese Literature, by Christopher Lupke
34. The Cultural Revolution Model Theater, by Di Bai
35. Martial-Arts Fiction and Jin Yong, by John Christopher Hamm
36. Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao, by Miriam Lang
37. Misty Poetry, by Michelle Yeh
38. Scar Literature and the Memory of Trauma, by Sabina Knight
39. Culture Against Politics: Roots-Seeking Literature, by Mark Leenhouts
40. Mo Yan, by Yomi Braester
41. Avant-Garde Fiction in Post-Mao China, by Andrew F. Jones
42. Contemporary Experimental Theaters in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, by Rossella Ferrari
43. Modern Poetry of Taiwan, by Michelle Yeh
44. Same-Sex Love in Recent Chinese Literature, by Thomas Moran
45. Contemporary Urban Fiction: Rewriting the City, by Robin Visser and Jie Lu
46. Xi Xi and Tales of Hong Kong, by Daisy S. Y. Ng
47. Writing Taiwan's Fin-de-Siècle Splendor: Zhu Tianwen and Zhu Tianxin, by Lingchei Letty Chen
48. Wang Anyi, by Lingzhen Wang
49. Wang Shuo, by Jonathan Noble
50. Commercialization of Literature in the Post-Mao Era, by Zhen Zhang
51. Popular Genre Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy, by Mingwei Song
52. Word and Image: Gao Xingjian, by Mabel Lee
53. Hong Kong Voices: Literature from the Late Twentieth Century to the New Millennium, by Esther M. K. Cheung
54. Avant-Garde Poetry in China Since the 1980s, by Maghiel van Crevel
55. Taiwan Literature in the Post–Martial Law Era, by Michael Berry
56. Speaking from the Margins: Yan Lianke, by Carlos Rojas
57. Internet Literature: From YY to MOOC, by Heather Inwood
Index
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