The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology. The contributors explore Chinese modernity through the psychosocial contradictions ex...(展开全部)

We live in a world shaped by secularism - the separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from the political, social, and economic realms of public life. Not only has progress toward modernity often been equated with secularization, but when religion is admitted into modernity, it has been distinguished from superstition. That such ideas are continually c...(展开全部)

In Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to examine male subjectivities in contemporary China. Reading through a feminist psychoanalytic lens, Zhong argues that understanding the nature of male subjectivities as portrayed in literature and film is crucial to understanding China’s ongoing quest for modernity. Before t...(展开全部)

Xueping Zhong is Assistant Professor in the Department of German/Russian/Asian Languages at Tufts University.

China has one of the longest continuous literary traditions in the world. From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing, both as an instrument of the state and as a medium for culture outside the state. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and ...(展开全部)

China has one of the longest continuous literary traditions in the world. From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing, both as an instrument of the state and as a medium for culture outside the state. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and ...(展开全部)

作者普实克（1906－1980），欧洲最负盛名的中国文学与文化学者，前捷克斯洛伐克科学院院士，东方研究所所长。他所领导的东方研究所曾是二十世纪五六十年代欧洲最有成就的中国文学研究中心。六十年代初，他和美国夏志清教授关于后者所著《中国现代小说史》的讨论，曾在欧美引起很大反 响。 编者李欧梵，台湾大学外文系毕业，美国哈佛大学博士，香港科技大学人文荣誉博士。现为哈佛大学东亚系荣休教授，香港中文大学讲座教授，“中央研究院”院士，曾任教于普林斯顿大学、印第安纳大学、芝加哥大学、香港科技大学、哈佛大学等著名学府。主要著述包括：《铁屋中的呐喊》、《中国现代作家的浪漫一代》、《西潮的彼岸》、《中西文学的徊想》、《狐狸洞话语》、《现代性的追求》、《上海摩登》、《我的哈佛岁月》等二十多种，并出版有小说《范柳原忏情录》和《东方猎手》。 译者郭建玲，浙江金华人。二〇〇七年毕...(展开全部)

刘若愚（James Liu，1926-1986），生前为美国斯坦福大学教授，主要研究中国古典诗歌、诗论和文论，以及中西比较文学、比较诗学。他还著有《中国诗艺》、《中国之游侠》、《李商隐的诗》、《北宋主要诗人》、《中国文学艺术基础》、《跨语种批评家》、《悖论—语言—诗学》。

The emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel can best be understood in light of the half-century long formation of the modern concept of literature in China. Globalized in the wake of modern capitalism, literary modernity configures the literary text in a relationship to both modern philosophy and literary theory. This book traces China's unique, complex, and creative a...(展开全部)