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Chinese literature --- Littérature chinoise --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- S16/0150 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works

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Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philosophy as well as poetry and poetics, storytelling, drama, and the novel, Sabina Knight discusses the philosophical foundations of literary culture as well as literature's power to address historical trauma and cultivate moral and sensual passions. From ancient historical records through the modernization and globalization of Chinese literature, Knight draws on lively examples to underscore the close relationship between ethics and aesthetics, as well as the diversity of Chinese thought. Knight also illuminates the role of elite patronage; the ways literature has served the interests of specific groups; and questions of canonization, language, nationalism, and cross-cultural understanding. The book includes Chinese characters for names, titles, and key terms.

Chinese literature --- History and criticism --- S16/0150 --- History and criticism. --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works --- Littérature chinoise --- Histoire et critique --- Chinese literature - History and criticism

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Zhang, Ailing --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Adaptations. --- S05/0221 --- S16/0150 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works --- Chang, Eileen

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This groundbreaking volume opens a new window on both modern and traditional Chinese literature, history and popular culture, demonstrating how a new style of reading brings us—the modern reader—closer to understanding how Chinese citizens perceived their world and what their writings reveal about the culture that produced them. Following the pioneering work of Professor Glen Dudbridge, this book brings together eight studies that develop a new style of reading Chinese sources by exploring the dynamics of discourse across open boundaries: those of fiction and history, literary and non-literary sources, official and vernacular culture, prose and poetry, records past and present, lost and extant, vernacular and classical, traditional and modern. Each chapter discusses how authors, editors and publishers use representation, editing and selection as means of self-fashioning and political propaganda.

S01/0800 --- S16/0150 --- China: Bibliography and reference--"Festschrifte" and other works of a miscellaneous nature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Chinese literature --- History and criticism.