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The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
Kirk A. (Ed) Denton
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Description for The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
Paperback. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 454.
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895-1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the effects of censorship, the representation of the Chinese diaspora, the rise and meaning of Sinophone literature, and the role of different media in the development of literature. Subsequent essays focus on authors, their works, and the schools with which ... Read more
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895-1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the effects of censorship, the representation of the Chinese diaspora, the rise and meaning of Sinophone literature, and the role of different media in the development of literature. Subsequent essays focus on authors, their works, and the schools with which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231170093
SKU
V9780231170093
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About Kirk A. (Ed) Denton
Kirk A. Denton is professor of Chinese literature at the Ohio State University. His edited books include Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945 (1996) and Literary Societies of Republican China (2008). He is author of The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling (1998) and Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics ... Read more
Reviews for The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature addresses a range of issues crucial to our understanding of modern Chinese literary culture, from the birth of new fiction to the advent of Internet writing and from the vitality of cultural production to the vigor of political intervention. In this volume, Chinese literature appears to be a most powerful institution that inscribes, ... Read more