The interpretative chain of modern Chinese literature and the formation of the “New Tradition”Frontiers of Literary Studies in China - Tập 4 - Trang 161-189 - 2010
Rumin Wen
The modern Chinese literary tradition that emerged along with the May Fourth Movement has already spilt over into every aspect of contemporary Chinese life. As shaping force in Chinese literary and cultural evolution, this “New Tradition” calls for renewed critical scrutiny. In the face of new contemporary challenges that threaten to subvert the May Fourth literary tradition, the value of this tra...... hiện toàn bộ
From early compilations to a corpus: The making of a literary talentFrontiers of Literary Studies in China - Tập 4 - Trang 630-643 - 2010
Zhenghong Chen
Shuangliu xuan shiwen ji 双柳轩诗文集 (Anthology of sanctum with two willows) was an anthology of some early works of Yuan Mei (1716–1798), an eminent writer of the Qing dynasty, and had been published before he got famous. Taking the enormous differences found during collation of this anthology with Yuan Mei quan ji 袁枚全集 (Corpus of Yuan Mei), a contemporary collated edition of Xiaocangshan fang quan ji...... hiện toàn bộ
Evaluative standard for the eight-legged essay in the imperial examinations of the Qing DynastyFrontiers of Literary Studies in China - Tập 1 - Trang 610-631 - 2007
Yanming Gong, Mingyang Gao
The eight-legged essay was the dominant portion of the imperial examinations in the Qing Dynasty (Qing Chao 清朝 CE 1644–1911). However, the study on the evaluative standards for the eight-legged essay is often neglected and insufficiently discussed. Based on an investigation of A Complete Collection of Vermillion Examination Essays in the Qing Dynasty, the author of this paper proposes that the fou...... hiện toàn bộ
Perception of “inner China” and legitimate Cathay concepts in the literature of Jin DynastyFrontiers of Literary Studies in China - Tập 1 Số 3 - Trang 431-448 - 2007
Liu Yang-zhong
The royal government of the Jin Dynasty (Jin Chao 金朝 CE 1115–1234) had regarded itself as a legitimate Cathay dynasty while the Song (Song Chao 宋朝 CE 960–1279) and Jin were confronting each other in military and political affairs. The “inner China” notion and the legitimate Cathay perception were bred in the Jin Dynasty along with the historical trend of merging the Han nationality with al...... hiện toàn bộ
Zhan Kai and five “novels of women’s liberation” of the late QingFrontiers of Literary Studies in China - Tập 5 - Trang 537-565 - 2011
Ellen Widmer
Zhan Kai’s 詹垲 (c. 1860–c. 1910) two novels about women’s liberation of 1907 (Zhongguo xin nühao 中国新女豪 and Nüzi quan 女子权) are compared with each other and with three slightly earlier novels that could have been influences: Nü yuhua 女狱花 of 1904, Nüwa shi 女娲石 of 1904, and Huang Xiuqiu 黄绣球 of 1905–7. An effort is made to show what he might have borrowed and what were the most original points in Zhan’s...... hiện toàn bộ
Introspection of ancient Chinese literature research in the 20th centuryFrontiers of Literary Studies in China - Tập 2 - Trang 163-190 - 2008
Lin Huang
This paper aims at an introspection of the ancient Chinese literature research in the past hundred years. Then the author put forward his opinions about some important divergences of the present research, such as the value tropism of the research, the basic methods for study, the choice of research topics, the theory guidelines of the research, the basic methodologies for research, defining the re...... hiện toàn bộ
Commercial media and the popular dissemination of printed copies of Ming fictionFrontiers of Literary Studies in China - - 2008
Wenrui Lin
Printed copies are a prerequisite for the realization of fiction reading. Ming popular fiction can be regarded as part of a commercial printing culture, and its spread and reception in the shape of printed copies were strongly influenced by the dissemination media. The involvement of commercial capital during the Ming promoted the large-scale development of private print shops, while the commercia...... hiện toàn bộ
The New Type of Buddhist Chanting and the Poetry Transformation in Yongming Reign’s PeriodFrontiers of Literary Studies in China - Tập 4 Số 4 - Trang 523-552 - 2010
Jin Xi, Xiaodun Wang
This paper examines the Buddhist chanting in Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern dynasties from several aspects, such as the historical position of it, the reason for its flourish, its speech way, etc. This paper also redetermines the relationship between Buddhist chanting and poetry writing in middle ancient times. The results for this research are as the following: First, The effective fa...... hiện toàn bộ