Helmut Martin, Jeffrey C. Kinkley

Modern Chinese Writers (eBook, ePUB)

Self-portrayals

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume gathers personal reflections on life and literature by 44 of China's leading authors. It aims to illustrate how Chinese society and its creative writing have supported, competed and fought with each other for the past 40 years and more. Much of what is revealed here is mundane, but the pressure of bringing art to social and political causes, indeed the universal pressure to survive, forges this collection into a very human document. The strengths and weaknesses of these essays offer a window on those of modern Chinese literature itself. Realism was the favoured literary doctrine of the day, and, reflecting this, most of these essays speak for themselves - about war, revolution, betrayal and commitment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315488677
• Artikelnr.: 49352267

Autorenporträt

Martin, Helmut; Kinkley, Jeffrey C.

Inhaltsangabe

Overview: Chinese Writers on Writing
Retrospective Introduction
Enforced Silence or Emigre Uncertainties: Options for Chinese Writers after a Decade of Experiments and Growth
Contributors
I. LITERATURE FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC HISTORICAL BLUNDERS
The Enigmatic Laughter oflnsanity: A Modern Love Story
A Written Testimonial: About the Cultural Revolution
I Am Not Solzhenitsyn: From an Eyewitness of the Labor Camps
On Behalf of Humanism: The Confession of a Former Leftist
FURTHER VICTIMS OF POLITICS IN THE EIGHTIES
Against Those Who Wield the Scissors: A Plea for an End to Censorship
China's Contemporary Literature: Reaching Out to the World and to the Future
Reflections in the Hot Springs of Hakone: China
Our Impoverished
Tmuble-Ridden Motherland
PATTERNS OF THE NEW LITERATURE
Banished to Xinjiang: Or
About Bestial Hatred of Literature
Novels Strangled in the Cradle: My Senseless Literary Battles
Spokesman for a Victimized Generation: Can There Be Progress after Midlife?
After Twenty Years of Silence We Lick Our Wounds: Our Battle for a Place in World Literature
ACCOUNTS OF RURAL REALITIES
Thrusts of Violent Creativity: ''I Returned with My Hands Empty and Shame on My Face
The Slow Maturation of My Craft: Tea in Cold Water Steeps Slowly
Life Is Changing
Even in Hilly Shangzhou
RISING IN PROTEST: A NEW GENERATION
The First Half of My Life: A Boy from the City Struggling for Survival in Far-Away Yunnan
AGAINST COMPLACENCY: WOMEN WRITERS
The Boat I Steer: A Study in Perseverance
Needed: A Spirit of Courageous Self-Examination
DOCUMENTARY LITERATURE
Is Reportage to Be Excluded from the Realm of Literature? The Function of Warning Bells
A ''Bengal Tigress'' Interviews Herself: A Panorama of Our Times from Within
THE SEARCH FOR ROOTS
After the Literature of the Wounded: Local Cultures
Roots
Maturity
and Fatigue
COMBINING PAST AND PRESENT
We Must Not Forget Our Historical Roots: Popular Literature
Peking Opera
and Modern Prose
AN ABRUPT END TO PRC LITERATURE OF THE EIGHTIES
The June 4 Syndrome: Spiritual and Ideological Schizophrenia
II. WITHOUT A REGIME OR A REGIMEN: ENTERTAINMENT FICTION ADVENTURE NOVELS
Against the Authors of Foreign Books in Chinese Language: An Interview with China's Most Popular Writer of Adventure Novels
III. CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN MODERNISTS AND SEMI-EMIGRES
The Chinese Student Movement Abroad: Exiled Writers in the New World
On the Miseries of Writers in American Exile: Sanitized Versions for Taiwan
Hong Kong
and the People's Republic
Such a Symphony of Written Characters One Must Not Allow to Disperse
THE NATIVE REALISTS: BLACK HUMOR AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS
How Love Scatters: On the Publication of the First Collection of My Works
Father's Writings Have Been Republished: Or
The Sexuality of Women Students in a Taibei Bookstore
Things Chinese and Foreign
Ancient and Modern: An Absurd Comedy
IDEOLOGISTS
Against Taiwan's Orphan Mentality: The Author as His Own Critic
Native Literature as a Stimulus for Social Change: From a Writing Career to Political Activism
ALIENATION
WITHDRAWAL
AND DISSENT
Cold Ashes in the Heart: The Tragedy of Taiwanese Literature
Concern About the Native Land: On the Taking of a Pseudonym
NEW GENERATIONS
From Taibei's Suburbs: Into the Hubbub of Taiwan's Economic Miracle
Protest of a Woman Author Against Reckless Accusations: Another Self-Interview
This Time from Taibei
Vanished Virility: Stories-My Last Remaining Castle
IV. THE REPUBLICAN ERA REVISITED CHANGING TIMES
Suppressed Furor Against Foreign Troops: An Unwritten Novel and a Play about the Boxer Uprising
A Literary Outcry: Awakening from Unconsciousness
My J'accuse Against This Moribund System: Notes on a Crumbling Landlord Clan of Western Sichuan
Shanghai's Silk Industry: World Economic Crisis
Workers
and Civil War
NEW FORMS OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
Fiction and Society: Changes and Continuities in Mass Audiences
International Shanghai
1941: Coffee House Chat about Sexual Intimacy and the Childlike Charm of the Japanese
Foolish Dreams: Like a Blind Person Going Fishing
Early Autobiographical Fragments: A Young Sojourner in a Foreign Land
Glossary
Translators and Writers Translated
Bibliographies
Index