Dealing with the central issue of style in literature, this groundbreaking study is a must for sinologists, but also for all students of comparative literature. Michel Hockx takes as a point of departure the observation that most writers of the Republican period adhered to a distinctly traditional practice of gathering in literary societies, while at the same time displaying a ...(展开全部)

作者：贺麦晓 （Michel Hockx，1964—），荷兰人，多年任教于伦敦大––学亚非学院，现任美国圣母大学东亚系教授兼刘氏亚洲研究院院长。他的研究著作主要关注现当代中国文学群体及其出版物与社会实践，曾发表过多本著作，另外亦涉足中国现代诗歌研究。专著有《中国网络文学》（Internet Literature in China），《雪朝：通往现代性的八位中国诗人》（A Snowy Morning: Eight Chinese Poets on the Road to Modernity， Leiden：CNWS，1994）等。 译者：陈太胜，1971年生，北京师范大学文学院教授。出版有诗集《在陌生人中旅行》、专著《梁宗岱与中国象征主义诗学》 《象征主义与中国现代诗学》 《声音、翻译和新旧之争——中国新诗的现代性之路》等。

Denton and Hockx present thirteen essays treating a variety of literary organizations from China's Republican era (1911-1949). Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing the social and cultural complexity of literary groupings and the role of these social formations in literary production of the period.

Denton and Hockx present thirteen essays treating a variety of literary organizations from China's Republican era (1911-1949). Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing the social and cultural complexity of literary groupings and the role of these social formations in literary production of the period.

Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era of 1911-1949. Wedged between the fall of the Empire and the founding of the Communist state, the Republican period witnessed enormous social, political, and cultural changes. Traditionall...(展开全部)

About the Author Joachim Gentz, Ph.D. (1998), University of Heidelberg, is Chair of Chinese Philosophy and Religion at the University of Edinburgh. He has published a number of monographs and many articles on China, including Das Gongyang zhuan (2001) and Keywords Re-Oriented (2009). Dirk Meyer, PhD. (2008), Leiden University, is Associate Professor of Chinese Philosophy, and F...(展开全部)

The civil service examination essay known as shiwen (modern or contemporary prose) or bagu wen (eight-legged essay) for its complex structure was the most widely read and written literary genre in early modern China (1450–1850). As the primary mode of expression in which educated individuals were schooled, shiwen epitomized the literary enterprise even beyond the walls of the e...(展开全部)

The civil service examination essay known as shiwen (modern or contemporary prose) or bagu wen (eight-legged essay) for its complex structure was the most widely read and written literary genre in early modern China (1450–1850). As the primary mode of expression in which educated individuals were schooled, shiwen epitomized the literary enterprise even beyond the walls of the e...(展开全部)

This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and cultural responses to the experience of the modern. With chapters by writers, sc...(展开全部)

This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and cultural responses to the experience of the modern. With chapters by writers, sc...(展开全部)