Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Fiction 1919 - 1949
Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Fiction 1919 - 1949

Author: Lu Xun

Publisher:

Published: 2004-08-01

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9781410106759

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In the thirty years from the literary revolution of 1919 to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China experienced a great flowering in literary creativity. The present selection comprises twenty-four outstanding short stories by twenty-four of the most talented writers of this period. The stories reveal the sufferings of the Chinese people in the years before liberation and show also the revolutionary course taken by them in their search for a new life. They also demonstrate the high level of writing achieved in this period: each is a valuable contribution to the treasury of modern Chinese literature. In compiling this collection, the editors have taken into account both the position of the author in modern Chinese literary history and the representativeness of the story in the author's creative work. For the convenience of the readers, each story is followed by a brief biography of the author.

Theorising Chinese Masculinity
Theorising Chinese Masculinity

Author: Kam Louie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-04

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780521806213

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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Chinese masculinity. Kam Louie uses the concepts of wen (cultural attainment) and wu (martial valour) to explain attitudes to masculinity. This revises most Western analyses of Asian masculinity that rely on the yin-yang binary. Examining classical and contemporary Chinese literature and film, the book also looks at the Chinese diaspora to consider Chinese masculinity within and outside China.

Reading the Modern Chinese Short Story
Reading the Modern Chinese Short Story

Author: Theodore Huters

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1315491516

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Translations of six stories accompany seven papers from a workshop on critical approaches to modern Chinese short stories held at the U. of Hawaii in December 1982. With one exception, the essays analyze the stories presented, looking at such factors as the psychological structure, the narrator, ide

Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart

Author: Howard Goldblatt

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1990-04-30

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780765638649

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Thirteen selected papers from an international conference on contemporary Chinese literature held near Gunzburg, Bavaria, in June-July 1986 constitute both a record of literary writings from the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as an overview of the broader international role of Chinese writing i

Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949
Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949

Author: Joseph S. M. Lau

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 9780231042031

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Brings together some of the best and most historically significant works of short fiction written in China in this century -including such important figures in the development of Chinese modernism as Lu Hsün, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and Shen Ts' ung-wen. The companion volume to the highly acclaimed (Columbia, 1978), this new volume presents modernist short fiction from the thirty-year period leading up to the Communist revolution of 1949, after which Chinese literature entered a new phase of development. The stories range in setting from the late Ch'ing dynasty through the Sino-Japanese War and the early Communist years, and range in length from brief tales to substantial short novels. Though a large number of the writers represented are leftists, works of all political viewpoints have been included to provide the full literary panorama of one of the most fertile periods of Chinese creative activity.

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2022)
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2022)

Author: Yulia Pogrebnyak

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-02-10

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 2494069270

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This is an open access book. International Science and Culture Center for Academic Contacts (ISCCAC) is pleased to announce The 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2022). The conference was held on August 12-13, 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held in on-line format. ICLCCS 2022 covers a number of problems, such as: prospects for the development of linguistics, modern approaches and topical issues of teaching foreign languages, information technologies as a medium of language existence, language as the means of intercultural communication, problems of modern translation studies and other topical issues in the interrelated fields of language, communication and culture.

Bamboo Shoots After the Rain
Bamboo Shoots After the Rain

Author: Ann C. Carver

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1558617841

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A short story collection hailed as a “welcome and valuable addition to our growing knowledge about the inner lives and literary talents of Chinese women” (Amy Ling, author of Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry). This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ethnic, and political perspectives. It is filled with unexpected gems such as Lin Hai-yin’s story of a woman suffering under the feudal system of Old China, and Chiang Hsiao-yun’s optimistic solutions to problems of the elderly in rapidly changing 1980s Taiwan. And in between, a dozen rich stories of aristocrats, comrades, wives, concubines, children, mothers, sexuality, female initiation, rape, and the tensions between traditional and modern life. “This is not western feminism with an Asian accent”, says Bloomsbury Review, “but a description of one culture’s reality. . . . The woman protagonists survive both despite and because of their existence in a changing Taiwan.”

Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic)
Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic)

Author: Qian Zhongshu

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2004-02-17

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 081122354X

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The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era. Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights.