The Western Reinvention of Chinese Literature, 1910-2010

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51504-8
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

Reihe: Chinese Texts in the World

During much of China’s tumultuous 20th century, May 4th and Maoist iconoclasts regarded their classical literary heritage as a burden to be dislodged in the quest for modernization. This volume demonstrates how the traditions that had deeply impressed earlier generations of Western writers like Goethe and Voltaire did not lose their lustre; to the contrary, a fascination with these past riches sprouted with renewed vigour among Euro-American poets, novelists, and other cultural figures after the fall of imperial China in 1911. From Petrograd to Paris, and from São Paolo to San Francisco, China’s premodern poetry, theatre, essays, and fiction inspired numerous prominent writers and intellectuals. The contributors survey the fruits of this engagement in multiple Western languages and nations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cai, Zong-Qi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cai, Zong-qi

Roddy, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Stephen Roddy and Zong-qi Cai

1 Walter Benjamin’s China

William Cheung

2 The Chinese Written Character and the Reinvention of Western and Chinese Poetry: Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound

Xiaohui Zhang and Zong-qi Cai

3 A Semiopoetic Reimagination of Concreteness: Chinese Ideograms in Haroldo de Campos

Inez Zhou

4 A Poet-Knight-Errant Traveling North: Three Russian Poets’ Translations of Li Bai

Xiaolu Ma

5 Robert Hans van Gulik and the Reinvention of Chinese Detective Fiction

Yunte Huang

6 Rethinking Pearl S. Buck and Tanci Fiction

Yu Zhang

7 Transcultural, Transmedial Reinvention: Shuihu zhuan ??? (Water Margin) from Chinese Classic to Italian Comic Art

Martina Caschera

8 A Post-Orientalist Turn: Pascal Quignard, Michèle Métail, and China

Xiaofan Amy Li

9 Global South Feminisms in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Patricia Galvão’s Industrial Park

Ana Paulina Lee

10 Sino-Pacifism: China in the Peace Work(s) of Maxine Hong Kingston, Kenneth Rexroth, & Lou Harrison

Stephen Roddy

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zong-qi Cai teaches at Lingnan University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published thirteen scholarly books in English and five in Chinese, the most recent of which are his monograph Grammar and Poetic Visions (2021), and his edited volume How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology (2022).

Stephen Roddy teaches Asian Studies at the University of San Francisco. He has published articles and monographs about late-traditional Chinese fiction, prose, and poetry, and recently translated (with Ying Wang) Li Yu’s 1651 play, The Fragrant Companions (2022).