1st Edition

A World History of Chinese Literature

Edited By Yingjin Zhang Copyright 2023
422 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

422 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

422 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Providing a broad introduction to the area, A World History of Chinese Literature maps the field of Chinese literature across its various worlds, looking both within – at the world of Chinese literature, its history, linguistic, cultural, local, and regional specificities – and without – at the way Chinese literature has circulated throughout the world. The thematic focus allows for a broad... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

I. Overviews: Literature, History, and the Multiple Worlds

1. General Introduction

Yingjin Zhang

(University of California, San Diego)

2. Modern Chinese Literary Historiography

David Wang

(Harvard University)

 

II. Circulation and Reception of China in World Literature

3. Zeitgeist and Literature: The Reception of Chinese Literature in Germany until the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Weigui Fang

(Beijing Normal University, China)

4. Paris and the Art of Transposition, 1920s-1940s

Angie Chau

(University of Victoria, Canada)

5. Line, Loop, Constellation: Classical Chinese Poetry between Sinophone and Anglophone Worlds

Luo

Hui (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

6. A Decade Apart: Bridging the US and China Literary Systems, 2010-2021

Jonathan Stalling

(University of Oklahoma)

III. Worlding Chinese Literature Across the Globe

7. Chinese Literature at Large: Wong Chin Foo’s Border-Crossing Writing

Ping Zhu

(University of Oklahoma)

8. Engaging the World in Republican Literature

Liyan Qin

(Peking University, China)

9. The Rise of Author Museums in the PRC: How Institutions Make World Literature

Emily Graf

(Free University of Berlin, Germany)

IV. Sinophone Worlds of Borderlands, Urban Jungles, and Rainforests

10. Yi Literature: Traditional and Contemporary

Mark Bender

(Ohio State University)

11. Queer Sinophone Literature in Hong Kong: The Politics of Worldliness

Alvin K. Wong

(University of Hong Kong)

12. Taiwanese Literature in the Early Twenty-First Century

Kuei-fen Chiu

(Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)

13. Of Other (Chinese) Spaces: Sinophone Literature and the Rainforest

Andrea Bachner

(Cornell University)

V. Comparative Worlds of Literary Genres

14. Modern Chinese Drama Across Media and Worlds: Centered on the Case of the White Snake

Liang Luo

(University of Kentucky)

15. Reportage and the Forms of Nonfiction Art in China

Charles Laughlin

(University of Virginia)

16. Reading World Literature in Chinese Science Fiction

Lena Henningsen

(University of Freiburg, Germany)

17. Ecological Critique as World Literature: Alienation of Nature and Humans in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide

Ban Wang

(Stanford University)

VI. Translingual Worlds of Writers and Scholars

18. Su Manshu’s "Broken Hairpin": A Romantic Tragedy in the Hard Times

Ping-hui Liao

(University of California, San Diego)

19. Qian Zhongshu as a Cosmopolitan

Ji

Jin (Suzhou University, China)

20. Zhang Ailing and the Cold War Cultural Geography

Xiaojue Wang

(Rutgers University)

21. Worlding Jin Yong’s Martial Arts (Wuxia) Narrative in Three Keys: Narration, Translation, Adaptation

Weijie Song

(Rutgers University)

22. Yan Lianke’s Heterotopic Imaginaries

Carlos Rojas

(Duke University)

VII. New Worlds of Gender Configurations

23. Modern Intellectual Masculinities in Transformation

Jun Lei

(Texas A&M University)

24. Nora in China

Hu Ying 

(University of California, Irvine)

25. Reading Women: Rethinking a Trope in the Socialist Modern and Beyond

Barbara Mittler

(University of Heidelberg, Germany)

26. Feminine Neorealist Fiction in the New Millennium: Voice, Trauma, and Focalization in Fang Fang’s Fiction

Li Guo

(Utah State University)

 

VIII. Changing Worlds of Translation and Transmediation

27. Frame Tales: Reading the 1,001 Nights in Early Twentieth-Century China

Michael Gibbs Hill

(College of William and Mary)

28. Figuring Time: Lyricism in Contemporary Chinese Poetic Films

Shengqing Wu

(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

29. Performance and Performativity in Modern China

Emily Wilcox

(College of William and Mary)

30. Chinese Internet Fictions in the Transmedia World

Yiwen Wang

(University of California, San Diego)

 

Index

Biography

Yingjin Zhang was Distinguished Professor of Modern Chinese Literature at the University of California, San Diego, as well as Visiting Professor of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His publications include The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature (2022), New Chinese-Language Documentaries (Routledge, 2017), and Chinese Film Stars (Routledge, 2010).