This book opens up three new topics in modern Chinese literary history: the intimate lives of modern China's most famous literary couple, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping; real and imagined love-letters in modern Chinese literature; and the contents, functions, and values of privacy held by one couple in twentieth-century China as shown by a comparison between the edited and unedited versions of their letters.

Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping (Studies on Contemporary China)

Business & Money

McDougall, Bonnie S.

International

Oxford University Press

The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century

In this ground-breaking book, Bonnie S. McDougall and Kam Louie present the first comprehensive, integrated survey of twentieth-century Chinese literature. The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century traces the development of Chinese literature from the Boxer Rebellion, when the strains of Western influence first emerged, to the Tiananmen Massacre, when dissident poets, such as Bei Dao, earned international acclaim and indefinite exile from the mainland. Each of the book's three chronological sections contains individual chapters examining the poetry, drama, and fiction of the period and includes an introduction outlining the historical and social context of the individual writers and their works. By analyzing this captivating literary tradition in terms of subject, theme, language, structure, style, intended audience, and cultural impact, the authors present a vivid picture of this important literature and a unique window on twentieth-century Chinese society.

Literature & Fiction

Louie, Kam

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Evokes the moods and impulses of individuals, from intellectuals to factory workers, during the years of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath

Waves

Dao, Bei

Seven Oaks Pr

The essays in this volume constitute an exceptionally broad and inclusive account of Chinese literature and performing arts since 1949. Extending beyond fiction to poetry and drama, and covering song, opera, and film as well, these essays reveal a more lively and varied cultural life than that disclosed by studies confined to fiction and literary politics. Rather than stopping at the assumption that art reflects Party or government policy, the essays uncover the traditional roots of popular literature and performing art by employing literary and artistic methods of analysis. While often lacking in appeal to Western audiences, these popular arts nonetheless have their own artistic validity and convey complex meanings to broadly based Chinese audiences. The materials and analyses presented here have social as well as cultural relevance. Variety and change rather than monolithic uniformity have characterized post-1949 cultural bureaucracies, writers, performers, and audiences. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 (Studies on China) (Volume 2)

University of California Press

Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 (Volume 2) (Studies on China)

Old Snow: Poetry

New Directions

Old Snow: Poems (English, Chinese and Chinese Edition)

Pei-Tao

Chen, Maiping

A young married editor sent to cover a prestigious writers' conference has a liberating affair with a famous writer and finds a new sense of herself

Brocade Valley

WANG, Anyi

Contemporary

Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art”: A Translation of the 1943 Text with Commentary (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies) (Volume 39)

Arts & Photography

U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES

Translation Stories from Modern China

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Cambria Press

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