Modern Chinese Literary Thought,9780804725590

Modern Chinese Literary Thought

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ISBN13: 9780804725590
ISBN10: 0804725594
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-02-01
Publisher(s): Stanford Univ Pr
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Summary

This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
General Introduction 1(64)
Kirk A. Denton
PART I: THE LATE QING PERIOD, 1893--1911
Introduction
65(4)
Preface to Poems from the Hut in the Human World
69(2)
Huang Zunxian
Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation
71(3)
Liang Qichao
On the Relationship Between Fiction and the Government of the People
74(8)
Liang Qichao
Preface to Oliver Twist
82(2)
Lin Shu
Preface to Part One of David Copperfield
84(3)
Lin Shu
Miscellaneous Notes on Literature (excerpts)
87(3)
Liu Shipei
Incidental Remarks on Literature
90(6)
Wang Guowei
On the Power of Mara Poetry
96(27)
Lu Xun
PART II: THE MAY FOURTH PERIOD, 1915-1925
Introduction
113(10)
Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature
123(17)
Hu Shi
On Literary Revolution
140(6)
Chen Duxiu
Nightmare
146(5)
Lin Shu
Humane Literature
151(11)
Zhou Zuoren
On the Literary Arts (excerpts)
162(7)
Ye Shengtao
Art and Life
169(13)
Xu Zhimo
Replacing Religion with Aesthetic Education
182(8)
Cai Yuanpei
Literature and Life
190(6)
Mao Dun
On Photography
196(8)
Lu Xun
Preface to The Sorrows of Young Werther
204(9)
Guo Moruo
Fusing with Nature
213(5)
Liang Shiqiu
A Critique of the New Culturists
218(10)
Mei Guangdi
Women and Literature
228(5)
Zhou Zuoren
On ``Literary Criticism''
233(2)
Bing Xin
My Opinions on Creativity
235(3)
Lu Yin
Preface to Call to Arms
238(5)
Lu Xun
Remarks on the Publication of Saturday
243(2)
Wang Dungen
Congratulations to Happy Magazine
245(2)
Zhou Shoujuan
The Mission of the New Literature
247(16)
Cheng Fangwu
PART III: REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE, 1923-1930
Introduction
257(6)
Class Struggle in Literature
263(6)
Yu Dafu
From a Literary Revolution to a Revolutionary Literature
269(7)
Cheng Fangwu
The Bygone Age of Ah Q
276(13)
Qian Xingcun
On Reading Ni Huanzhi
289(18)
Mao Dun
Literature and Revolution
307(9)
Liang Shiqiu
Dai Wangshu's Poetic Theory
316(2)
Dai Wangshu
Form in Poetry
318(10)
Wen Yiduo
The Divergence of Art and Politics
328(7)
Lu Xun
Thoughts on Realism
335(10)
Zhou Yang
Realism: A ``Correction''
345(18)
Hu Feng
PART IV: THE DEBATE ON LITERARY FREEDOM, 1932-1935
Introduction
359(4)
Do Not Encroach Upon Literary Art
363(4)
Hu Qiuyuan
Regarding the Literary News and Hu Qiuyuan's Literary Arguments
367(9)
Su Wen
Freedom for Literature but Not the Writer
376(7)
Qu Qiubai
On the ``Third Category''
383(4)
Lu Xun
Preface to Public Cemetery
387(3)
Mu Shiying
A Record of My Own Inspiration
390(2)
Li Jinfa
Literature and Life
392(17)
Zhu Guangqian
PART V: THE PERIOD OF NATIONAL CRISIS, 1936-1945
Introduction
403(6)
On National Defense Literature
409(6)
Zhou Yang
What Do the Broad Masses Demand of Literature?
415(3)
Hu Feng
The Question of Popular Literature and Art
418(10)
Qu Qiubai
Excerpts from Mao Zedong
428(5)
Mao Zedong
Literature and Art for the Masses and the Use of Traditional Forms
433(3)
Mao Dun
My Writing
436(7)
Zhang Ailing
On Writers
443(7)
Qian Zhongshu
Universal or Restricted?
450(5)
Shen Congwen
We Need the Zawen Essay
455(3)
Ding Ling
Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art
458(27)
Mao Zedong
Realism Today
485(8)
Hu Feng
Reference Matter
Glossary 493(28)
Bibliography 521(16)
Translators 537(2)
Index 539

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