Fate And Free Will In Twentieth Century Chinese Fiction
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Fate And Free Will In Twentieth Century Chinese Fiction
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Author : Deirdre Sabina Knight
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Fate And Free Will In Twentieth Century Chinese Fiction written by Deirdre Sabina Knight and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Chinese fiction categories.
The Heart Of Time
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Author : Sabina Knight
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-23
The Heart Of Time written by Sabina Knight and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
"By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction’s unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. How does Chinese fiction express the desire for freedom as well as fears of attendant responsibilities and abuses? How does it depict struggles for and against freedom? How do the texts allow for or deny the possibility of freedom and agency? By analyzing discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures, the author explores how representations of determinism and moral responsibility changed over the twentieth century. She links these changes to representations of time and to enduring commitments to human-heartedness and social justice.Although Chinese fiction may contain some of the most disconsolate pages in the twentieth century’s long literature of disenchantment, it also bespeaks, Knight argues, a passion for freedom and moral responsibility. Responding to ongoing conflicts between the claims of modernity and the resources of past traditions, these stories and novels are often dominated by challenges to human agency. Yet read with sensitivity to traditional Chinese conceptions of moral experience, their testimony to both the promises of freedom and the failure of such promises opens new perspectives on moral agency."
The Magnitude Of Ming
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Author : Christopher Lupke
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2005-01-31
The Magnitude Of Ming written by Christopher Lupke and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as “command,” “allotted lifespan,” “fate,” or “life.” In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies to produce the first comprehensive study in English of ming’s broad web of meanings. The essays span the history of Chinese civilization and represent disciplines as varied as religion, philosophy, anthropology, literary studies, history, and sociology. Cross-cultural comparisons between ancient Chinese views of ming and Western conceptions of moira and fatum are discussed, providing a specific point of departure for contrasting the structure of attitudes between the two civilizations. Ming is central to debates on the legitimacy of rulership and is the crucial variable in Daoist manuals for prolonging one’s life. It has preoccupied the philosopher and the poet and weighed on the minds of commoners throughout imperial China. Ming was the subject of the great critic Jin Shengtan’s last major literary work and drove the narrative of such classic novels as The Investiture of the Gods and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Confucius, Mencius, and most other great thinkers of the classical age, as well as those in ages to come, had much to say on the subject. It has only been eschewed in contemporary Chinese philosophy, but even its effacement there has ironically turned it into a sort of absent cause. Contributors: Stephen Bokenkamp, Zong-qi Cai, Robert Campany, Woei Lien Chong, Deirdre Sabina Knight, Christopher Lupke, Mu-chou Poo, Michael Puett, Lisa Raphals, P. Steven Sangren, David Schaberg, Patricia Sieber.
Fictional Authors Imaginary Audiences
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Author : Bonnie S. McDougall
language : en
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Release Date : 2003
Fictional Authors Imaginary Audiences written by Bonnie S. McDougall and has been published by Chinese University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Education categories.
The authors and audiences for 20th century Chinese literature, especially fiction, are examined in a fresh light. While modern Chinese fictions are imaginary in that they do not constitute reliable portraits of Chinese life, they offer insights into the writers themselves and their implied audiences.
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Author : 姜智芹著
language : zh-CN
Publisher: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Release Date : 2022-05-01
written by 姜智芹著 and has been published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
本书涵盖中国当代文学海外传播、西方文学中的中国形象、外国文学、比较文学研究四个方面。探讨中国文学海外接受中的解读偏好、中国文学海外传播与中国形象塑造、中国文学海外传播研究的方法及存在问题；分析西方不同历史阶段的文学作品中如何对中国进行文学想象和文化利用，研究西方之中国形象背后的深层社会文化蕴含；剖析外国作家，尤其是卡夫卡的中国文化情结，探究其职业与文学创作的关系以及他对前辈作家的继承和对后世作家的影响；从比较的视角阐释张炜与海明威、卡夫卡与狄更斯等作家的作品，挖掘不同民族文学之间的的互识、互证、互鉴。
The Opposite Of Fate
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Author : Amy Tan
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-06-21
The Opposite Of Fate written by Amy Tan and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America’s best-loved novelists.
Causality And Containment In Seventeenth Century Chinese Fiction
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Author : Keith McMahon
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Causality And Containment In Seventeenth Century Chinese Fiction written by Keith McMahon and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with History categories.
A number of features characterize late Ming vernacular fiction as part of the general cultural expansion of that period. These features centrally include the exposition of sexual transgression and the function of containment, by which is meant the ideology of the control of desires. The late Ming writers are studiously devoted to illustrating minute, obscene, or erotic details that belief the decorum of the orthodox surface. However, this subversiveness of detail decreases in intensity from the late Ming to the early Qing, when values of containment are reinvoked. Related topics are: the theme of causality and its role in the story's mapping of the logic of adultery; adultery as an emblem of the woman's escape from containment and the use of the narrative topos of the gap in the wall as a locus of sexual transgression.
The Sea Of Regret
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Author : Wu Jianren
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2021-05-25
The Sea Of Regret written by Wu Jianren and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Fiction categories.
Published within a few months of each other in 1906, "Stones in the Sea" by Fu Lin and "The Sea of Regret" by Wu Jianren take opposite sides in the heated turn-of-the-century debate over the place of romantic and sexual love and passion in Chinese life. "The Sea of Regret", which came to be the most popular short novel of this period, is a response to the less well-known but equally significant "Stones in the Sea". Taken together, this pair of novels provides a fascinating portrait of early twentieth-century China's struggle with its own cultural, ethical, and sexual redefinition. Patrick Hanan's masterful translation brings together these novels -- neither of which has before been available in any foreign language -- in a single volume, with a valuable introduction and notes. | "A tour de force in the art of translation. 'The Sea of Regret' is not only accurate, but, in the typical Hanan fashion, it is succinct and elegant as well. Impeccable work from an eminent scholar of Chinese fiction and a master of prose." --Lee Ou-fan Lee, UCLA | "These two short novels are especially interesting for their insights into the debate in educated circles concerning marriage, family, and the status of women. The chaos in China caused by the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 is also vividly rendered in both works. Readers will find not only intrinsic interest but also historical relevance in these early modern novels." --Michael S. Duke, University of British Columbia | Patrick Hanan is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of "The Chinese Vernacular Story" and "The Invention of Li Yu" and the translator of "The Carnal Prayer Mat" and "A Tower for the Summer Heat".
Man S Fate
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Author : Andre Malraux
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1990-02-19
Man S Fate written by Andre Malraux and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-02-19 with Fiction categories.
As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the contemporary world and brings to life the profound meaning of the revolutionary impulse for the individuals involved. As a study of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of ideologies, betrayal, expediency, and free will, Andre Malraux's novel remains unequaled. Translated from the French by Haakon M. Chevalier
Lu Hs N And His Predecessors
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Author : V. I. Semanov
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-24
Lu Hs N And His Predecessors written by V. I. Semanov and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Originally published in 1980, Alber’s translation of Semanov’s study aimed to contribute to the studies of Chinese literature and the knowledge of Lu Hsün’s work to an English-speaking reader. Lu Hsün was an influential democrat and humanist in early twentieth Century China and his work had a great influence on literature in China. Semanov therefore attempted to place his life and work in the context of his literary predecessors as well as commenting on his world view, his teaching and place in history. This title will be of interest to students of Asian studies and Literature.