Modern Chinese Literature

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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

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  • the earliest translations [unpublished ppt presentation_woesler.pptx, paper: woesler_early_translations_of_german_literature_into_chinese_final.doc, paper]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

  • 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

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"
  • Yu Hua, "Brothers" by David 06:48, 5 December 2012 (UTC) by Jackie(BNU)2016
  • 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
  • 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

  • Cult author Guo Jingming
  • Cult author Mian Mian
    • Mian Mian (棉棉), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex

Critical surrealist Han Han, young authors

Triple door
His Land



  • Web literature portal qidian.com

THE OUTLINE OF WEB LITERATURE

The web literature didn't have a such long history, but it had great impact on the whole Chinese literature.

The start of web literature

Pi Zi Cai could be recognizes as the first Web literature writer. He finished his famous work The first intimate contact in 1998 and made a sensation rapidly. It was a love tragedy between the two main characters.The First Intimate Contact was first published by Tsai in the form of online installments on a bulletin board system. The complete story became popular in Taiwan, attracting a publisher and being released in print.


Paragraph examples

THEME of the fear for loneliness 

   我希望自己不会无时无刻地想起她,而这种希望..就好像我希望天空不是蓝色的;就好像我希望树木不是绿色的:就好像我希望星星不在黑夜里闪耀:就好像我希望太阳不在白天时高照。
  
   I hope that he will not think of her at all times, but that hope,just as I hope the sky is not blue; 
just as I hope the trees are not green; just as I hope the stars do not shine night;just as I hope the sun when the day is not high. 
   
   我一个人，不孤单想你时，才会孤单 
   
   I am a person, not alone like you, only lonely   -------荃 Tsuen 
  
   爱在哪里，就在你湛蓝如海的眼眸里阳光一照，便热情灿烂微风一吹，便柔情荡漾 .
   Love where you are blue in the sea Yanmou where the sun, such as a photo, then warm and brilliant micro-Fengyi Chui, then tenderness

waves.


The next step for wen literature——Professional literature websites

The first website------Rong Shu Xia

Start from: 1997.12.25

Founder: Zhu Weilian 朱威廉

Famous writer: 韩寒、慕容雪村、宁财神、安妮宝贝、李嘉贤、蔡骏、郭敬明、楚惜刀、贾飞、画龙 

   But at this time, the development of web literature was not as good as our expectation, it just provide a platform 
  and remind people of web literature existence .However, so many businessmen found the large development space 
  behind it and try to make money from it.

The following websites group

Hong Xiu Tian Xiang(1998)

Huan Jian Lian Meng(2001.5

Qi Dian Zhong Wen(2002.5)

17k Xiao Shuo(2006.5)

Zong Heng Zhong Wen(2008.9) 

    So many websites appeared one by one, and the new rules and regulations were built up in this process. 
    The web literature started to make its one style which was set uo on common readers.

The biggest revolution in website literature---From PC to Mobile internet generation

The symbol of this turning is the 'CM reading.com' It stated in 2010. 

   Different forms appeared and literature had a larger space to communicate. Everyone could made comments

and have some writing on their hand-in devices. The technology made literature easy and simple.

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