ABSTRACT
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 number of key categories, such as authors, genres, genders, regions, as well as innovative explorations of new topics and issues such as inter-arts performativity and transmediation.
The sections cover the circulation and reception of China in world literature, as well as the worlds of:
- Chinese literature across the globe
- Borders, oceans, and rainforests
- Comparative literary genres
- Translingual writers and scholars
- Gender configurations
- Translation and transmediation
With a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection intervenes in current debates on global Chinese literature, Sinophone and Sinoscript studies, and the production and reception of literary works by ethnic Chinese in non-Sinitic languages, as well as Anglophone literature inspired by Chinese literary tradition. It will be of interest to anyone working on or studying Chinese literature, language and culture, as well as world literatures in relation to China.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|31 pages
Overviews
part II|52 pages
Circulation and Reception of China in World Literature
chapter 3|14 pages
Zeitgeist and Literature
chapter 5|12 pages
Line, Loop, Constellation
part III|35 pages
Worlding Chinese Literature Across the Globe
part IV|46 pages
Sinophone Worlds of Borderlands, Urban Jungles, and Rainforests
part V|52 pages
Comparative Worlds of Literary Genres
chapter 14|16 pages
Modern Chinese Drama Across Media and Worlds
chapter 17|12 pages
Ecological Critique as World Literature
part VI|55 pages
Translingual Worlds of Writers and Scholars
chapter 21|11 pages
Worlding Jin Yong's Martial Arts (Wuxia) Narrative in Three Keys
part VII|66 pages
New Worlds of Gender Configurations
chapter 26|11 pages
Feminine Neorealist Fiction in the New Millennium
part VIII|47 pages
Changing Worlds of Translation and Transmediation