The Western Reinvention of Chinese Literature, 1910-2010: From Ezra Pound to Maxine Hong Kingston

Author:   Zong-qi Cai ,  Stephen Roddy
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   1
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9789004515048


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   07 July 2022
Format:   Hardback
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The Western Reinvention of Chinese Literature, 1910-2010: From Ezra Pound to Maxine Hong Kingston


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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.

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Author:   Zong-qi Cai ,  Stephen Roddy
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.604kg
ISBN:  

9789004515048


ISBN 10:   9004515046
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   07 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 水滸傳 (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

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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).

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