The Literary field of twentieth-century China
Литературное поле Китая XX века
2000-02-01
SCID: 54.1/bywuqd2v
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An act of violence: translation of Western fiction in the late Qing and early republican period / Wang-chi Wong -- More than butterflies: some observations on the early years of the journal Xiaoshuo yuebao / Denise Gimpel -- Playing the field: aspects of Chinese literary life in the 1920s / Michel Hockx -- From literature to love: glory and decline of the love-letter genre / Raoul David Findeisen -- Literature high and low: 'popular fiction' in twentieth-century China / Chen Pingyuan -- Stories and legends: China's largest contemporary popular literature journals / Marja Kaikkonen -- No past to long for?: a sociology of Chinese writers in exile / Oliver Krämer -- Displacing the political: Zhang Yimou's To Live and the field of film / Wendy Larson -- Here, there, anywhere: networking by young Chinese writers today -- Claire Huot.
Key Findings
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It analyzes the early development of Xiaoshuo yuebao and the transformation of Chinese literary journals beyond their initial associations with butterfly fiction.
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It traces the rise and decline of the love-letter genre and investigates tensions between high literature and popular fiction in twentieth-century China.
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The collection examines how translation of Western fiction shaped literary change during China’s late Qing and early republican periods.
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The studies address contemporary popular-literature journals, writers in exile, the political displacement in Zhang Yimou’s To Live, and networking among young Chinese writers.
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The volume maps Chinese literary life in the 1920s, including relationships among literary institutions, genres, and cultural actors.
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The literary field of twentieth-century China
Research Subject
the transformations, structures, genres, institutions, and transnational dynamics of Chinese literary life and popular culture from the late Qing period to the present
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