A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature 1st Edition by Zicheng Hong ISBN 9004173668 9789004173668

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ISBN 10: 9004173668

ISBN 13: 978-9004173668

Author:  Zicheng Hong 

A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature 1st Edition: This groundbreaking book by the eminent Peking University professor Hong Zicheng covers the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, primarily focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing. Reprinted sixteen times since its publication in the PRC in 1999 it is now available in English translation at last. The first section of the book deals with the 1949-1976 period. Often derided and ignored as an arid era for literature by both Chinese and overseas critics, Professor Hong describes the literature that was popular and officially acceptable at the time, and the cultural policies and political campaigns that shaped the tastes of readers and the literary creativity of writers during the period. This part of the book is remarkable for Professor Hong s candidness and open-mindedness, qualities that would have made this text difficult to publish at an earlier date in China. Furthermore, the platform that the first part of the text provides renders the second part even more understandable to readers unfamiliar with the post-1976 literary scene and offers new insights to those who are familiar with it demonstrating as it does the close links between the two distinctive eras. These links are provided by the resumption of literary traditions that had been more-or-less abandoned during the preceding ten-year period, as well as reactions against literature nurtured and guided by the state cultural apparatus. The second part of the book consists of a comprehensive description of developments and insightful explanations of those developments in the literary arts and literary criticism since 1976. A unique and much needed accomplishment in contemporary literary studies. Also available in paperback.

 

A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature 1st Edition Table of contents:

• Chapter one: The transition in literature

• Chapter two: Literary norms and the literary environment

• Chapter three: Contradictions and conflicts

• Chapter four: Hidden poets and poetry groupings

• Chapter five: The forms of poetry

• Chapter six: Themes and forms of fiction

• Chapter seven: Rural area fiction

• Chapter eight: The narration of history

• Chapter nine: The plight of other forms of fiction

• Chapter ten: Beyond the mainstream

• Chapter eleven: Prose

• Chapter twelve: The theater

• Chapter thirteen: Towards cultural revolution literature

• Chapter fourteen: The re-construction of classics

• Chapter fifteen: A divided literary world

• Chapter sixteen: The literary environment during the 1980s
• Chapter seventeen: A survey of 1980s literature
• Chapter eighteen: Fiction during the first half of the 1980s
• Chapter nineteen: 1980s poetry
• Chapter twenty: The new poetry tide
• Chapter twenty-one: Fiction of the second half of the 1980s A
• Chapter twenty-two: Fiction of the second half of the 1980s B
• Chapter twenty-three: The art of woman writers
• Chapter twenty-four: The art of prose
• Chapter twenty-five: The situation of literature in the 1990s

 

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