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The Modern Chinese Literary Essay - Defining the Chinese Self in the 20th Century- Conference Volume
Click on the graphic for enlarged display. Download flyer (177 KB) here.New publication January 2001.
Woesler, ed., Martin, Bochum, Bochum University Press, 2001, ca. 400 pp., ISBN 3-934453-15-5, China Science, Bd 3, ISSN 1616-1556, USD 40.00; DM 85.00
The book contains the papers read on the international conference 08/26 - 08/27/2000: "The Modern Chinese Literary Essay - Defining The Chinese Self in the 20th Century" in Achern, Germany.
From the contents:
"Let us Assign the Essay its Proper Place in Chinese Literature", Prof. Martin Woesler, Mainz University, Germany
The Emergence of the Modern Chinese Essay: Precursors and Influences of a Major Literary Form
Legacies of Leisure: Late Imperial Influences on the 20th Century Chinese Essay, Prof. Charles A. Laughlin, Yale University, New Haven, USA; The Aesthetic of Marginalism and the Impact of the West on the Chinese Essay, Prof. Martin Woesler, Mainz University, Germany
The Modern Essay and Urban Culture in The Republican Period
Theatrical Self and Early Republican Subjectivity: Zhou Shoujuan's Pillow Talk 'In the Nine-Flower Curtain', Dr. Jianhua Chen, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 1940s Shanghai: Eileen Chang and her linguistic experiments in her floating essays, Nicole Huang, University of Wisconsin, Madison USA
The Travel Note and the Letter: A Place for the Author's Self
The Self in the Landscape: Chinese Essays of Place in the Republican Era (1912-1949), Alexandra R. Wagner, Yale University, New Haven, USA; Real and imagined letters in China and the West: the correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping in context, Prof. Bonnie S. McDougall, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom
Perspectives on Ideology and Form in the Essay
Zhu Ziqing, Frantz Fanon, and the Fierce White Children, Daniel A. Fried, M.S., Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; Incongruous Lyricism: Liu Baiyu, Yang Shuo and sanwen in Chinese Socialist Culture, Prof. Charles A. Laughlin, Yale University, New Haven, USA; The Changing Character of the Essay Subgenres, Prof. Ming-Lee Cheng, Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Cultural Polemics in Contemporary China
From Historical Narrative to the World of Prose: The Essayistic Mode in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Prof. Wang Ban, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, USA; The Braying Mule: the modal trope of "tone"in contemporary zawen, Prof. Mary Scoggin, Humboldt State University, USA; Nostalgia as a Social Metaphor in Zhang Wei's Writings, Prof. Jie Lu, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, USA; Taming the Populist Gadfly: Polemics around Zhang Chengzhi's 'Religious Sublime', Prof. Xinmin Liu, Wesleyan University, USA
The Philosphical Essay / The Modern Essay in Hong Kong
Qian Zhongshu's essays, Dr. Hong Yu, until 7/30 Munich University, Germany; The Short Miscellaneous Essay with Hong Kong Characteristics, Prof. Wai Leung Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Overview of the Contemporary Essay: Characteristics, Actors, Trends
20th Century Chinese Essay - Characteristics, Afctors, and Trends, Prof. Martin Woesler, Mainz University, GermanyYou may order within the States or within Europe by email, fax or letter directly from the Press:
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Europe: Bochumer Universitätsverlag, Universitätsstr. 140, 44799 Bochum, Germany, phone +49 234 971 978 - 0, fax -6, on campus +49 234 (32-)11993, fax (32-)14993, email BoU@BoU.de
