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

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• the earliest translations [unpublished ppt presentation_woesler.pptx, paper: woesler_early_translations_of_german_literature_into_chinese_final.doc, paper]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

• McDougall and Louie, 1-185; focus on pages 1-30
• Lu Xun (1881-1936) Beween activism and self-doubt - the development of Lu Xun 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)
  • Further information: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/mad.htm, http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/kong.htm
  • "Hometown" http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/luxun-calltoarms.html#Home [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]

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
• Further reading: Literary Societies of Republican China. Edited by KIRK A. DENTON and MICHEL HOCKX. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008. ix, 591 pp.
• Crescent Moon
• Creation Society
• Yu Dafu, "Sinking" 1921 [31-55], Xu Zhimo's poems 1925-1930 [499-501]
• Guo Moruo (1892 -1978) DavidSmith 21:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Guo Moruo: “The hound of heaven” 1920

Literature of the 1930s

• Qian Zhongshu (1910 – 1998) User:Ericaangie 13:19, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Self-selected excerpts from Qian Zhongshu, Fortress besieged --Sunflowertide (talk) 10:36, 1 June 2016 (UTC) 1947

Women writers

• Literature of the Megacities - The inner life of Shanghainese women writers with a focus on Zhang Ailing
• Zhang Ailing(1920-1995) -- User:Mark 15:15, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
• Ling Shuhua (1900-1990) Mattstrock 21:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
• Ling Shuhua, "The Night of Mid-Autumn Festival" [95-102];
• Xiao Hong (1911-1942) PhilipHarding 03:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
• Xiao Hong, "Hands" [161-73]; "On the Oxcart" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
• Zhang Jie (born 1937)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

• 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

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

• Bing Xin
• Zhang Jie: Heavy Wings
• Zhang Jie: Kid From The Forest

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

• Mo Yan 莫言 by Corinne B.

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" by David 06:48, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
• Jia Pingwa
• Wang Shuo

Contemporary Women authors

• Bi Shumin (毕淑敏), 女儿拳 Women’s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist

Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present

• Su Tong, "Escape" [445-54];
• 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
• Gu Cheng, Mang Ke, Bei Dao: Poets of the Obscure School since the 1980s

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

• Yu Dan 于丹, 《论语》心得 Confucius in your heart, Yi Zhongtian (易中天)
• Alai

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

• Cult author Guo Jingming
  • Book series "Bestseller"
  • Guo Jingming (郭敬明), 悲伤逆流成河 Cry me a sad river
• Cult author Mian Mian
  • Mian Mian (棉棉), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex

Critical surrealist Han Han, young authors

• Han Han by Matt S.

Triple door

His Land

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