Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey

ISBN-13: 9780253337108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 384 str.

Pang-Yuan Ch'i; Te-Wei Wang

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..". an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." -- Choice"This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949... discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and societal issues in modern Chinese literature." --Library JournalThis volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the enunciative endeavors, ranging from ideological treatises to avant-garde experiments, that inform the polyphonic discourse of Chinese cultural politics; (3) to observe the historical factors that enacted the interplay of literary (post)modernities across the Chinese communities in the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas.