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Featuring the work of renowned scholars, this anthology provides an introduction to Chinese aesthetics and literature.
This comprehensive introduction to Chinese aesthetics and literature includes the major modern genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. Featuring the work of renowned scholars in Chinese studies, the book provides an historical survey of Chinese literature and explains its philosophical and historical underpinnings in Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian thought. The traditions of lyric poetry, fiction, and theater are presented as cultural practices. Modern responses to the political and social crises of twentieth-century China and on the avant-garde experimental literature of twenty-first century China are also examined.
Preface
Introduction
Notes on Language and Pronunciation
A Brief Outline of Literary History
1. THE IMAGINATIVE UNIVERSE OF CHINESE LITERATURE
Pauline Yu and Theodore Huters
2. LANGUAGE AND INTERPRETIVE CONTEXTS
Roger T. Ames
3. THE CONTINUITY OF BEING: CHINESE VISIONS OF NATURE
Tu Wei-ming
4. THE CENTRAL TRADITION IN TRADITIONAL SOCIETY
Wilt Idema and Lloyd Haft
5. WOMEN, MORAL VIRTUE, AND LITERARY TEXT
Wendy Larson
6. OMEN OF THE WORLD: MEANING IN THE CHINESE LYRIC
Stephen Owen
7. THE DISTINCTIVE ART OF CHINESE FICTION
Paul S. Ropp
8. BEIJING OPERA PLAYS AND PERFORMANCE
Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak
9. REFLECTIONS ON CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN MODERN CHINESE FICTION
Leo Ou-fan Lee
10. THEATER AND SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY CHINESE DRAMA
Yan Haiping
11. BORDER CROSSINGS: CHINESE WRITING, IN THEIR WORLD AND OURS
Howard Goldblatt
Annotated Bibliography
Contributors
Index