Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua
Biographical note
Hua Li, Ph.D. (2007) in Vancouver, University of British Columbia, is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Montana State University. She has been working and published on contemporary Chinese writers Su Tong and Yu Hua.
Readership
Readers at all levels with an interest in contemporary Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature, or Chinese society and history.
Reviews
“This book offers a welcome addition to the limited English-language scholarship on two of China’s most important contemporary authors, Su Tong (1963-) and Yu Hua (1960-)...Li incorporates extended accounts of the writers’ lives, and quotations from interviews and essays.”
Sabina Knight, Smith College, The Journal of Asian Studies (May 2012)
Sabina Knight, Smith College, The Journal of Asian Studies (May 2012)
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Bildungsroman/Chengzhang Xiaoshuo as a Literary Genre
Chapter 2: The Changing Patterns of the Bildungsroman in Modern Chinese Literature
Chapter 3: Fallen Youth: A Solitary Outcast
Chapter 4: Fallen Youth: A Trembling Loner
Chapter 5: Tragic and Parodistic Bildungsroman
Chapter 1: Bildungsroman/Chengzhang Xiaoshuo as a Literary Genre
Chapter 2: The Changing Patterns of the Bildungsroman in Modern Chinese Literature
Chapter 3: Fallen Youth: A Solitary Outcast
Chapter 4: Fallen Youth: A Trembling Loner
Chapter 5: Tragic and Parodistic Bildungsroman
€210.00$273.00
In The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity J. D. Schmidt provides a study of one of the China's greatest poets and a major architect of Chinese modernity.
€136.00$177.00
In Five Classics of Fengshui Michael Paton traces the theoretical development of this form of spiritual geography through full translations of major texts: the Burial Classic of Qing Wu, Book of Burial, Yellow Emperor’s Classic of House Siting, Twenty Four Difficult Problems, and Water Dragon ...
€94.00$129.00
In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli introduces a significant corpus of Chinese Buddhist poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts celebrating Mount Wutai. They offer important literary evidence for the transformation of the mountain into the earthly ...
€88.00$122.00
Between the Lines provides theoretical foundation and a methodology for studying poetry through translation. With insider’s perspective, the author Cosima Bruno presents contemporary Chinese poems by Yang Lian (b. 1955) as case study.
€112.00$156.00
This book focuses on the representation of human mortality in medieval Chinese literature. This theme is observed and reconstructed through analysis of the work of eminent writers of the period, texts that have never been examined from an eschatological perspective.
€110.00$151.00
This book, through detailed analysis of the writings of the Liang Crown Prince Xiao Tong and his circle, will deepen and redefine our view of the court cultrue and literature of the Liang, a crucial period in Chinese literary history.
€210.00$288.00
Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium ...
€105.00$144.00
Saluting the Yellow Emperor tells the fascinating story of a group of Swedish scholars who rediscovered the pronunciation of the Chinese classics, buried Silk Road cities, and a Chinese Stone Age, while spiriting antiquities out of Asia.
€133.00$182.00
Identifying four spheres of knowledge culture in the history of technology in China, this book offers an introduction to the transmission of knowledge and detailed contextual descriptions of individual technologies in China such as porcelain, silk, and agriculture.
€96.00$124.00
Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in response to destabilizing social and political forces.
- 1 of 10
- ››
No additional information