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= Encounter with the West, Westernization =
 
= Encounter with the West, Westernization =
* Wu Jianren, New Story of the Stone, utopian novel
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* [[Wu Jianren]]--[[User:Sunflowertide|Sunflowertide]] ([[User talk:Sunflowertide|talk]]) 10:49, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
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** New Story of the Stone, utopian novel
 
* Liang Qichao, Accounts of the future of new China, utopian fragment
 
* Liang Qichao, Accounts of the future of new China, utopian fragment
 
* Secondary Literature:
 
* Secondary Literature:
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* Liang Qichao, Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation, Denton 71-73
 
* Liang Qichao, Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation, Denton 71-73
 
* Hu Shi, Some modest proposals for the Reform of Literature, D1996:123-139
 
* Hu Shi, Some modest proposals for the Reform of Literature, D1996:123-139
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* Literature Society & Romanticism During May 4th Period--[[User:Irene612|Irene612]] ([[User talk:Irene612|talk]]) 09:27, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
  
 
= The role of translations and translators =
 
= The role of translations and translators =
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= Discovery of the alienated Self – World Literature =
 
= Discovery of the alienated Self – World Literature =
 
* McDougall and Louie, 1-185; focus on pages 1-30
 
* McDougall and Louie, 1-185; focus on pages 1-30
* [[Lu Xun (1881-1936)]] Beween activism and self-doubt - the development of Lu Xun [[Special:Contributions/161.28.62.242|161.28.62.242]] 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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* [[Lu Xun (1881-1936)]] Beween activism and self-doubt - the development of Lu Xun [[User:Maranda|Maranda]] 21:14, 11 September 2012 (UTC) and 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 
** Lu Xun: Preface to the first collection of Short Stories "Call to arms" 1922 (LG:3-7), A Madman's Diary 1918 (LG:8-16), Kong Yiji 1919 (LG:17-21)
 
** Lu Xun: Preface to the first collection of Short Stories "Call to arms" 1922 (LG:3-7), A Madman's Diary 1918 (LG:8-16), Kong Yiji 1919 (LG:17-21)
 
** Further information: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/mad.htm, http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/kong.htm
 
** Further information: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/mad.htm, http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/kong.htm
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= Living to see the Western literary epochs in Chinese time lapse. The Literary societies and May Fourth Romanticism =
 
= Living to see the Western literary epochs in Chinese time lapse. The Literary societies and May Fourth Romanticism =
 
* Required reading: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/publications/research/soc.htm
 
* Required reading: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/publications/research/soc.htm
* Further reading: Literary Societies of Republican China. Edited by KIRK A. DENTON and MICHEL HOCKX. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008. ix, 591 pp.
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* Further reading:  
* Crescent Moon
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**Literary Societies of Republican China. Edited by KIRK A. DENTON and MICHEL HOCKX. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008. ix, 591 pp.
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**Critical Studies:In the Party Spirit: Socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China,Edited by H.Chung with M.Falchikov,B.S.McDougall and K.McPherson
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* Literary Research Society
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**[[Zhou Zuoren]],[[Zheng Zhenduo]],[[Shen Yanbing]]--[[User:Sunshine|Sunshine]] ([[User talk:Sunshine|talk]]) 15:46, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
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* Crescent Moon Society
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**Xu Zhimo's poems 1925-1930 [499-501]
 
* Creation Society
 
* Creation Society
* Yu Dafu, "Sinking" 1921 [31-55], Xu Zhimo's poems 1925-1930 [499-501]
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** [[Yu Dafu]], "Sinking" 1921 [31-55]
* [[Guo Moruo (1892 -1978)]]  [[User:DavidSmith|DavidSmith]] 21:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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** [[Guo Moruo (1892 -1978)]]  [[User:DavidSmith|DavidSmith]] 21:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
** Guo Moruo: “The hound of heaven” 1920
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*** Guo Moruo: “The hound of heaven” 1920
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*** http://global.britannica.com/biography/Guo-Moruo--[[User:Sunshine|Sunshine]] ([[User talk:Sunshine|talk]]) 15:46, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
  
 
= Literature of the 1930s =
 
= Literature of the 1930s =
*[[Qian ZhongShu (1910 – 1998)]] [[User:Ericaangie]] 13:19, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
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*[[Qian Zhongshu (1910 – 1998)]] [[User:Ericaangie]] 13:19, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
** Self-selected excerpts from Qian Zhongshu, "Fortress besieged" 1947
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** Self-selected excerpts from Qian Zhongshu, [[Fortress besieged]] --[[User:Sunflowertide|Sunflowertide]] ([[User talk:Sunflowertide|talk]]) 10:36, 1 June 2016 (UTC) 1947
  
 
= Women writers =
 
= Women writers =
 
* Literature of the Megacities - The inner life of Shanghainese women writers with a focus on Zhang Ailing
 
* Literature of the Megacities - The inner life of Shanghainese women writers with a focus on Zhang Ailing
* Zhang Ailing, "Sealed Off" [174-183], "Zhang Ailing", in: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, p. 680
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* [[Zhang Ailing]] -- 2012 Corinneb 13:21, 8 October 2012 (UTC) [[User:Mark]] 15:15, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 
* [[Ling Shuhua (1900-1990)]]  [[User:Mattstrock|Mattstrock]] 21:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 
* [[Ling Shuhua (1900-1990)]]  [[User:Mattstrock|Mattstrock]] 21:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 
* Ling Shuhua, "The Night of Mid-Autumn Festival" [95-102];
 
* Ling Shuhua, "The Night of Mid-Autumn Festival" [95-102];
 
*[[ Xiao Hong (1911-1942)]] [[User:PhilipHarding|PhilipHarding]] 03:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 
*[[ Xiao Hong (1911-1942)]] [[User:PhilipHarding|PhilipHarding]] 03:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 
* Xiao Hong, "Hands" [161-73]; "On the Oxcart" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
 
* Xiao Hong, "Hands" [161-73]; "On the Oxcart" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
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* [[Zhang Jie (born 1937)]][[User:Ericaangie|Ericaangie]] 18:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
  
 
= The fall: Authors yoke their literature for a deceiving ideology. Lu Xun’s proud ox bows his head not only for children, but now also for party action =
 
= The fall: Authors yoke their literature for a deceiving ideology. Lu Xun’s proud ox bows his head not only for children, but now also for party action =
 
* Lu Xun’s ambiguous attitude towards taking physical action, towards the impact of literature on society and towards serving an ideology with literature.
 
* Lu Xun’s ambiguous attitude towards taking physical action, towards the impact of literature on society and towards serving an ideology with literature.
* Mao's claim of Lu Xun
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* [[Lu Xun's proud ox]](鲁迅的骄傲的牛)
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* [[Lu Xun's translated works and his duty for society]](鲁迅的翻译作品和他对于社会的责任)
  
 
= The socialist era, Yan'an Literature and Rectification =
 
= The socialist era, Yan'an Literature and Rectification =
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= Authors in transition: From Revolutionary Romanticism to Reform Literature =
 
= Authors in transition: From Revolutionary Romanticism to Reform Literature =
* [[Wang Meng]] [[Special:Contributions/161.28.62.242|161.28.62.242]] 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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* [[Wang Meng]] by Maranda 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 
* Wang Meng, Long Live [the] Youth!
 
* Wang Meng, Long Live [the] Youth!
 
* Wang Meng, Hard Porridge, trans. by Chen Zishan
 
* Wang Meng, Hard Porridge, trans. by Chen Zishan
* Ba Jin: Family and the self-censorship in the later edition
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* [[Ba Jin]] [[User:PhilipHarding|PhilipHarding]] 21:43, 4 December 2012 (UTC): Family and the self-censorship in the later edition
  
 
= On different paths: Bing Xin, Zhang Jie =
 
= On different paths: Bing Xin, Zhang Jie =
* Bing Xin
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* [[Bing Xin]]
 
* Zhang Jie: Heavy Wings
 
* Zhang Jie: Heavy Wings
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* [[Zhang Jie: Kid From The Forest]]
  
 
= Chinese Modernism and the Aesthetic =
 
= Chinese Modernism and the Aesthetic =
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* Liu Heng, "Dogshit Food" [366-78]; scars literature
 
* Liu Heng, "Dogshit Food" [366-78]; scars literature
 
* Yan Lianke, "Black Bristle, White Bristles" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
 
* Yan Lianke, "Black Bristle, White Bristles" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
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* [[The Scar Literature After "the Cultural Revolution"]]
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** Lu Xinhua, Scar
  
 
= Master narrators Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, Wang Shuo =
 
= Master narrators Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, Wang Shuo =
* Mo Yan 莫言 "Old Gun" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
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* [[Mo Yan]] 莫言 by Corinne B.
* Mo Yan 莫言, 生死疲勞 "Life and Death are Wearing me out"
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: His story: "Old Gun" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion], novel 生死疲勞 "Life and Death are Wearing me out"
* Yu Hua, "Brothers"
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* [[Yu Hua]], "Brothers" by David 06:48, 5 December 2012 (UTC)  by Jackie(BNU)2016
* Jia Pingwa
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* [[Jia Pingwa]]
* Wang Shuo
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* [[Wang Shuo]]
  
 
= Contemporary Women authors =
 
= Contemporary Women authors =
* Bi Shumin (毕淑敏), 女儿拳 Women’s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist
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* [[Bi Shumin]](毕淑敏), 女儿拳 Women’s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist
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* [[Yan Geling]](严歌苓),The Flowers of War 金陵十三钗,Little Aunt Crane 小姨多鹤, The Lost Daughter of Happiness 扶桑
  
 
= Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present =
 
= Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present =
* Su Tong, "Escape" [445-54];
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* Yu Hua, "On the Road at Eighteen" [439-44]
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* [[Avant-garde literature]]
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* [[post-socialist present]]
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* [[Su Tong]], "[[Escape]]" [445-54];[[Link title]]
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* Yu Hua, "[[On the Road at Eighteen]]" [439-44]
 
** modern Chinese literary life, such as publishing in journals and newspaper supplements, working within literary societies or associations, and dealing with censorship
 
** modern Chinese literary life, such as publishing in journals and newspaper supplements, working within literary societies or associations, and dealing with censorship
 
* Gu Cheng, Mang Ke, Bei Dao: Poets of the Obscure School since the 1980s
 
* Gu Cheng, Mang Ke, Bei Dao: Poets of the Obscure School since the 1980s
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[[Media:Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present.ogg]]
  
 
= Taiwan literature =
 
= Taiwan literature =
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= Longing for something literature I: Historicizing, II: Tibet Exotism =
 
= Longing for something literature I: Historicizing, II: Tibet Exotism =
* Yu Dan 于丹, 《论语》心得 Confucius in your heart, Yi Zhongtian (易中天)
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* [[Historicizing]]
* Alai
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* [[Yu Dan]] 于丹, 《论语》心得 Confucius in your heart, [[Yi Zhongtian]] (易中天)
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* [[Alai]]
  
 
= Megacity Literature II - Peking and Vagabound Literature =
 
= Megacity Literature II - Peking and Vagabound Literature =
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* Cult author Guo Jingming
 
* Cult author Guo Jingming
 
** Book series "Bestseller"
 
** Book series "Bestseller"
** Guo Jingming (郭敬明), 悲伤逆流成河 Cry me a sad river
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** [[Guo Jingming]] (郭敬明), 悲伤逆流成河 [[Cry me a sad river]]
 
* Cult author Mian Mian
 
* Cult author Mian Mian
** Mian Mian (棉棉), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex
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** [[Mian Mian]] (棉棉), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex
  
 
= Critical surrealist Han Han, young authors =
 
= Critical surrealist Han Han, young authors =
* Triple door
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* [[Han Han]] by Matt S.
* His Land
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:Triple door
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:His Land
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= Blog, Web and Fan literature =
 
* Blogs (blog literature?), from web to paper literature
 
* Ai Weiwei, Han Han, Annie Baobei
 
  
= Fan literature =
 
 
* Web literature portal qidian.com
 
* Web literature portal qidian.com
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= THE OUTLINE OF WEB LITERATURE =
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* [[basic information of web literature]](网络文学概况)
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* [[web literature on screen]](网络文学影视化)
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* [[web literature'system]](网络文学的运作体系)
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when it comes to the web literature , it is disappointing that few scholar actually have done some research involved this field while there are more than 300 million web literature readers in China . So I’m really excited to see the articles written by ShaoYanjun coming to this kind of literature. According to what she said, the “Chinese Writer Association—journal”、”professional—non-professional”, which was regarded as the conventional pattern of novel writing , have no future, even though Mo Yan got the Nobel Prize in literature——Web literature can act as a deliverer.
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Shao devoted herself in discussing the identity of a writer named MaoNi in Web literature portal qidian.com. <间客>, Which is one of the most commercially successful novel of MaoNi attracting Shao, telling a story about the process of growing up of the hero, XuLe, in a magic background. It is the experience of reading this kind of novel that giving her the ticket to the access of the web literature, as she said. However, who is the one actually need this sort of appreciating by some scholars, it’s hard to regard it as the need of writers or readers, scholars themselves are the ones. To be precise, ShaoYanjun is working for its scholar fans, she never consider to change her standing as a scholar, the reason she choose MaoNi to be her research target is that she want web literature, like <间客>, can be interpret in the scholar circle, and as a consequence of doing this reading, she can have a better conversation with her students who is probably one of the 300 million web literature fans, and do a better job in her teaching jobs.

Latest revision as of 10:11, 26 July 2016

Emergence of modern Chinese literature

Historical and cultural background late Qing

  • Genre development in China, scholars as authors, Mandarin & Butterfly School
  • Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, 1791, transl. David Hawkes, John Minford

Encounter with the West, Westernization

  • Wu Jianren--Sunflowertide (talk) 10:49, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
    • New Story of the Stone, utopian novel
  • Liang Qichao, Accounts of the future of new China, utopian fragment
  • Secondary Literature:
    • Wang, David Derwei. Fin-de-siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
    • Wang, David Derwei. “Translating Modernity.” Pollard, David E., ed. Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in Early Modern China, 1840–1918. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998. 303-330.
    • Wang Dun (王敦). “The Late Qing’s Other Utopias: China’s Science-Fictional Imagination, 1900-1910”, in: Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 34.2, September 2008: 37-61
    • John Fitzgerald, The Unfinished History of China's Future, in: Thesis Eleven 1999 57:17, here pp. 21-23, http://the.sagepub.com/content/57/1/17

May Fourth iconoclasm - Historical and cultural background May Fourth

  • Liang Qichao, Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation, Denton 71-73
  • Hu Shi, Some modest proposals for the Reform of Literature, D1996:123-139
  • Literature Society & Romanticism During May 4th Period--Irene612 (talk) 09:27, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

The role of translations and translators

  • Yan Fu
  • Lin Shu
  • the earliest translations [unpublished ppt presentation_woesler.pptx, paper: woesler_early_translations_of_german_literature_into_chinese_final.doc, paper]
  • the selection process and intention of translations

Discovery of the alienated Self – World Literature

Living to see the Western literary epochs in Chinese time lapse. The Literary societies and May Fourth Romanticism

Literature of the 1930s

Women writers

The fall: Authors yoke their literature for a deceiving ideology. Lu Xun’s proud ox bows his head not only for children, but now also for party action

The socialist era, Yan'an Literature and Rectification

  • Mao Zedong, Poems, Talks in Yan'an: Literature and Art for the Masses and the Use of Traditional Forms, 1938, D1996:433-435
  • Ding Ling, "When I Was in Hsia Village" [132-46]
  • Mao Dun and "Spring Silkworms" [56-73]

Authors in transition: From Revolutionary Romanticism to Reform Literature

  • Wang Meng by Maranda 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Wang Meng, Long Live [the] Youth!
  • Wang Meng, Hard Porridge, trans. by Chen Zishan
  • Ba Jin PhilipHarding 21:43, 4 December 2012 (UTC): Family and the self-censorship in the later edition

On different paths: Bing Xin, Zhang Jie

Chinese Modernism and the Aesthetic

  • McDougall and Louie, 189-321; focus on pages 189-207
  • Shi Zhicun, "One Evening in the Rainy Season" [115-24]
  • Regional literature
  • Shen Congwen, "Xiaoxiao" [82-94]
  • "Meijin, Baozi, and the White Kid" [in China: A Traveler's Liteary Companion]

Post-Revolutionary Literature; Cultural Revolution

  • "Red Detachment of Women" [Film Viewing]

Post-Mao Literature, Scars and realism, Roots literature

  • McDougall and Louie, 325-448; focus on pages 325-44
  • Liu Heng, "Dogshit Food" [366-78]; scars literature
  • Yan Lianke, "Black Bristle, White Bristles" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
  • The Scar Literature After "the Cultural Revolution"
    • Lu Xinhua, Scar

Master narrators Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, Wang Shuo

His story: "Old Gun" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion], novel 生死疲勞 "Life and Death are Wearing me out"

Contemporary Women authors

  • Bi Shumin(毕淑敏), 女儿拳 Women’s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist
  • Yan Geling(严歌苓),The Flowers of War 金陵十三钗,Little Aunt Crane 小姨多鹤, The Lost Daughter of Happiness 扶桑

Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present


Media:Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present.ogg

Taiwan literature

  • Zhang Dachun, "Lucky Worries About His Country" (403-416)
  • Zhu Tianwen, "Fin de Siècle Splendor" [388-402]

Longing for something literature I: Historicizing, II: Tibet Exotism

Megacity Literature II - Peking and Vagabound Literature

  • Xu Zechen (徐则臣), 跑步穿过中关村 Peking double quick
  • Liu Zhenyun (刘震云), 我叫刘跃 The pickpockets

Between cult and celebrity

Critical surrealist Han Han, young authors

Triple door
His Land



  • Web literature portal qidian.com

THE OUTLINE OF WEB LITERATURE

when it comes to the web literature , it is disappointing that few scholar actually have done some research involved this field while there are more than 300 million web literature readers in China . So I’m really excited to see the articles written by ShaoYanjun coming to this kind of literature. According to what she said, the “Chinese Writer Association—journal”、”professional—non-professional”, which was regarded as the conventional pattern of novel writing , have no future, even though Mo Yan got the Nobel Prize in literature——Web literature can act as a deliverer. Shao devoted herself in discussing the identity of a writer named MaoNi in Web literature portal qidian.com. <间客>, Which is one of the most commercially successful novel of MaoNi attracting Shao, telling a story about the process of growing up of the hero, XuLe, in a magic background. It is the experience of reading this kind of novel that giving her the ticket to the access of the web literature, as she said. However, who is the one actually need this sort of appreciating by some scholars, it’s hard to regard it as the need of writers or readers, scholars themselves are the ones. To be precise, ShaoYanjun is working for its scholar fans, she never consider to change her standing as a scholar, the reason she choose MaoNi to be her research target is that she want web literature, like <间客>, can be interpret in the scholar circle, and as a consequence of doing this reading, she can have a better conversation with her students who is probably one of the 300 million web literature fans, and do a better job in her teaching jobs.