Descrizione

“La letteratura è uno specchio della storia e della società” e la letteratura cinese è indubbiamente il migliore angolo di osservazione per far luce sulle singolari connotazioni della cultura cinese. Chinee Literature, scritto per divulgare la conoscenza della letteratura cinese, ne vuole contemporaneamente sottolineare anche il processo di sviluppo. L’autrice, tuttavia, al di là della sua conoscenza letteraria, e prendendo spunto dagli aspetti più rilevanti della cultura cinese, ha selezionato opere ed autori di epoche diverse che hanno particolarmente influenzato la cultura e la vita sociale cinese. Si tratta del suo personale punto di osservazione che manifesta la sua visione soggettiva e il suo gusto nella fruizione della letteratura cinese. I commenti dell’autrice sono brevi e diretti, l’analisi semplice seppur profonda, le opere ben selezionate e l’intero libro offre idee innovative e originali prospettive che rivelano una spiccata personalità.

Elenco dei contenuti:

PART ONE: ANCIENT CHINESE LITERATURE

• The Book of Songs: The Earliest Anthology of Poetry
  • “Folk Songs of 15 regions (“Guofeng”).
  • The Epic of the Western Zhou People
• Prose Writing of Various Schools of Thought during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring State Period: Models for Prose Writing.
  • Tao Te Ching
  • The Analects
  • Mencius
  • Zhuangzi
• Qu Yuan
  • Qu Yuan
  • The Lament on Encountering Sorrows
• Records of the Historian: the First and Last Work by Historians, Li Sao without Rhyme
  • Pre-Qin Historian Books
  • About Records of the Historian
  • The Characterization in Records of the Historian
  • History and Literature
• Literature in the Wei and Jin Period: The Vigorous and Powerful Style of Jian’an Literature and Tao Yuanming
• Li Bai and Du Fu: The Two Summit of Tang Poetry
  • Li Bai – Romantic Genius Poet
  • Du Fu – A compassionate Sage Poet
• Ci Poetry: Poems that Can Be Sung
  • Su Shi
  • Li Qingzhao
  • Xin Qiji
• Two Outstanding Playwrights of the Yuan Opera: Guan Hanqing and Wang Shifu
  • Guan Hanqing
  • Wang Shifu
• Classical Fictions in Chapter-titled Style in the Ming Dynasty: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Oulaws of the Marsh and Journey to the West
  • Romance of the Three Kingdoms
  • Outlaws of the Marsh
  • Journey to the West
• Strange Tales from Make-do Studio: Short Stories of the Qing Dynasty
• A Dream of Red Mansions: The Pinnacle of Classical Literature

PART TWO: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LITERATURE

• Lu Xun: Founder of New Vernacular Literature
  • The Transformation of Literature
  • Lu Xun
• Modern Fiction: Echo of the Times
  • Mao Dun and Modern Fiction
  • Ba Jin and His “Torrent Trilgy”
  • Lao She and “Beijing Style” Citizen Fiction
  • “Beijing School” and “Shanghai School”
• New Poetry: Finding a Voice of Their Own
  • New Poetry: Finding a Voice of Theri Own
  • Guo Moruo: A Destroyer and a Creator
  • Ai Qing: A Singer of the Land and the Sun
  • Mu Dan: richness vs. Rich Suffering
• Modern Drama: Birth and Maturing
• Literature in the New Era: Reflections, Root-seeking and Explorations
  • Memories of the Historical Wounds
  • Root-seeking and Countryside Literature
  • Avantgarde Nvels
  • Writing of the Neo-realism
  • Trend of New Poetry
• Present-day Literature
  • New Historical Novels: Voices of Individuality
  • Cultural Prose: A New Literary Style
  • Youth Writing: Keeping Abreast with Fashion
  • Movie-TV Literature and Cyber-literature: Another Wing of Literature
• Appendix: Chronological Table of the Chinese Dynasties