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Informationen zum Autor Kirk A. Denton is professor of Chinese literature at the Ohio State University. His edited books include Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893¿1945 (1996) and Literary Societies of Republican China (2008). He is author of The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling (1998) and Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China (2014). Denton is also editor of the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and manager of the MCLC Resource Center (u.osu.edu/mclc/). Klappentext 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. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 D. 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 A. 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 D. Dooling 24. Performing the Nation: Chinese Drama and Theater, by Xiaomei Chen 25. Cao Yu and Thunderstorm , by Jonathan Noble 26. The Reluctant Nihilism of Lao She's Rickshaw, by Thomas Moran 27. Eileen Chang and Narratives of Cities and Worlds, 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: 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 3...
