Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Asian - General

This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese. This edition allows English-language readers to access the work for the first time. The author explains how political struggles within the state, competing sectarian interests, and other complex factors intertwined to produce various forms of collective violence that had a major impact on the political, economic, and social order of the time.

This book presents the concept of Fenggu, one of the most important aesthetic categories of ancient China. As an inspiring aesthetic principle, it once encapsulated the particularities of various types of artistic creation and played an important role in traditional artistic creation and theoretic critique. The present volume aims to systematically elaborate on its etymological origin, connotations and generation, its great role in overcoming the tendency of creative stereotypes, its logical positioning in the ancient aesthetic system and its profound connection with...

No other literature in the world has such a long and rich history as Chinese literature. This handbook is the first of its kind, containing extensive coverage of the 20th century and also of the authors from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. The entries contain biographical data, literary evaluation plus references to the most important secondary literature.

The Geschichte der chinesischen Literatur History of Chinese Literature] in ten volumes is thus far the most comprehensive representation of the approximately 3000-year history of Chinese literature. Each literary genre (poetry, novel, story, essay, theatre) is presented in its historical development from its beginnings to the present day. The index covers all volumes and is sorted by names, works, concepts and signs, thus making the history of Chinese literature easily accessible, and represents the current status of research.