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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

by Mo Yan

Publisher : Skyhorse + ORM
Release Date : 2011-12-03
ISBN 13 : 1628722495
Total Pages : 602 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (872 users downloads)

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Download or read book Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out written by Mo Yan and published by Skyhorse + ORM. This book was released on 2011-12-03 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newman Prize–winning “wildly visionary and creative novel” of modern China from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Red Sorghum and The Garlic Ballads (The New York Times). In this “epic black comedy,” benevolent landowner Ximen Nao is less than pleased to find himself in the underworld after being killed in Chairman Mao’s land reform movement. And even though he’s unwilling to admit to any wrongdoing, he is soon punished by being sent back to the mortal realm . . . as a donkey, an ox, a pig, a dog, a monkey, and so on (Kirkus Reviews). But in each of his reincarnations, Nao experiences another defining event in China’s maddening national transformation under the heavy hand of Communism—such as the Chinese Famine, the ever-changing Cultural Revolution, and the devastating failure of the Great Leap Forward. And in each new life, he finds both the humanity and the insanity of his burgeoning homeland. With this “exuberantly imaginative” novel, China’s most revered, renowned, and feared literary artist proves once again that the only true freedom is the freedom of the heart and mind (Washington Post).

A Subversive Voice in China

Publisher : Cambria Press
Release Date :
ISBN 13 : 1621969967
Total Pages : pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (196 users downloads)

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Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation

by Juris Dilevko

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2011-03-17
ISBN 13 : 1598849093
Total Pages : 526 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (884 users downloads)

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Download or read book Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation written by Juris Dilevko and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. • Over 1,000 annotated contemporary world fiction titles, featuring author's name; title; translator; publisher and place of publication; genre/literary style/story type; an annotation; related works by the author; subject keywords; and original language • 9 introductory overviews about classic world fiction titles • Extensive bibliographical essays about fiction traditions in other countries • 5 indexes: annotated authors, annotated titles, translators, nations, and subjects/keywords

Mo Yan in Context

by Angelica Duran

Publisher : Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-01
ISBN 13 : 1612493440
Total Pages : 238 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (249 users downloads)

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Download or read book Mo Yan in Context written by Angelica Duran and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary." The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer's work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and epilogue aim to deepen and widen critical discussions of both a specific literary author and the globalization of Chinese literature more generally. The book takes the "root-seeking" movement with which Mo Yan's works are associated as a metaphor for its organizational structure. The four articles of "Part I: Leaves" focus on Mo Yan's works as world literature, exploring the long shadow his works have cast globally. Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan's English translator, explores the difficulties and rewards of interpreting his work, while subsequent articles cover issues such as censorship and the "performativity" associated with being a global author. "Part II: Trunk" explores the nativist core of Mo Yan's works. Through careful comparative treatment of related historical events, the five articles in this section show how specific literary works intermingle with China's national and international politics, its mid-twentieth-century visual culture, and its rich religious and literary conventions, including humor. The three articles in "Part III: Roots" delve into the theoretical and practical extensions of Mo Yan's works, uncovering the vibrant critical and cultural systems that ground Eastern and Western literatures and cultures. Mo Yan in Context concludes with an epilogue by sociologist Fenggang Yang, offering a personal and globally aware reflection on the recognition Mo Yan's works have received at this historical juncture.

A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation (1919–2019)

by Leah Gerber

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2020-09-24
ISBN 13 : 1000178471
Total Pages : 188 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (17 users downloads)

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Download or read book A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation (1919–2019) written by Leah Gerber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the Chinese literary translation landscape over the last century, spanning critical historical periods such as the Cultural Revolution in the greater China region. Contributors from all around the world approach this theme from various angles, providing an overview of translation phenomena at key historical moments, identifying the trends of translation and publication, uncovering the translation history of important works, elucidating the relationship between translators and other agents, articulating the interaction between texts and readers and disclosing the nature of literary migration from Chinese into English. This volume aims at benefiting both academics of translation studies from a dominantly Anglophone culture and researchers in the greater China region. Chinese scholars of translation studies will not only be able to cite this as a reference book, but will be able to discover contrasts, confluence and communication between academics across the globe, which will stimulate, inspire and transform discussions in this field.

Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten

by Martin Avery

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-07-06
ISBN 13 : 1312333006
Total Pages : 528 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (233 users downloads)

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Download or read book Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You're going to die," the doctor said. But Canadian author Martin Avery laughed and walked away. Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten tells the story of a man who was told he would never work or walk again, in Canada, but lived to get a better diagnosis of "jing-chi-shen" in China.

Visions of Dystopia in China’s New Historical Novels

by Jeffrey C. Kinkley

Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-18
ISBN 13 : 0231532296
Total Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (153 users downloads)

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Download or read book Visions of Dystopia in China’s New Historical Novels written by Jeffrey C. Kinkley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist accounts and many Eastern and Western historical narratives. Writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong, Wang Anyi, Mo Yan, Han Shaogong, Ge Fei, Li Rui, and Zhang Wei skew and scramble common conceptions of China's modern development, deploying avant-garde narrative techniques from Latin American and Euro-American modernism to project a surprisingly "un-Chinese" dystopian vision and critical view of human culture and ethics. The epic narratives of modern Chinese fiction make rich use of magical realism, surrealism, and unusual treatments of historical time. Also featuring graphic depictions of sex and violence, as well as dark, raunchy comedy, these novels reflect China's recent history re-presenting the overthrow of the monarchy in the early twentieth century and the resulting chaos of revolution and war; the recurring miseries perpetrated by class warfare during the dictatorship of Mao Zedong; and the social dislocations caused by China's industrialization and rise as a global power. This book casts China's highbrow historical novels from the late 1980s to the first decade of the twenty-first century as a distinctively Chinese contribution to the form of the global dystopian novel and, consequently, to global thinking about the interrelations of utopia and dystopia.

Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays

by Zaifu Liu

Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2021-06-17
ISBN 13 : 9004449124
Total Pages : 397 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (444 users downloads)

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Download or read book Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays written by Zaifu Liu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liu Zaifu 劉再復 is a name that has already been ingrained within contemporary Chinese literary history. This landmark volume presents Anglophone readers with Liu’s profound reflections on Chinese literature and culture at different times. These critical essays deal with cultural criticism and literary theory, literary history, and individual modern and contemporary Chinese writers.

From Bethune's Birthplace To The PR China

by Martin Avery

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-10
ISBN 13 : 1304505146
Total Pages : 234 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (45 users downloads)

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Download or read book From Bethune's Birthplace To The PR China written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bethune's Birthplace to the PR China is book #1 in the 100 book series called The Great Wall Of China Books. It describes the first step in the journey made by Canadian author and educator Martin Avery from Norman Bethune's hometown to the People's Republic of China.

Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency

by Sarah Colvin

Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-12
ISBN 13 : 1000641945
Total Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (64 users downloads)

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Download or read book Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency written by Sarah Colvin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundational theories of epistemic justice, such as Miranda Fricker's, have cited literary narratives to support their case. But why have those narratives in particular provided the resource that was needed? And is cultural production always supportive of epistemic justice? This essay collection, written by experts in literary, philosophical, and cultural studies working in conversation with each other across a range of global contexts, expands the emerging field of epistemic injustice studies. The essays analyze the complex relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and epistemic (in)justice, referencing texts, film, and other forms of cultural production. The authors present, without seeking to synthesize, perspectives on how justice and injustice are narratively and aesthetically produced. This volume by no means wants to say the last word on epistemic justice and creative agency. The intention is to open out a productive new field of study, at a time when understanding the workings of injustice and possibilities for justice seems an ever more urgent project.

The Third Birth of Confucius

by Kashi Ram Sharma

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2022-04-28
ISBN 13 : 1000588491
Total Pages : 388 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (58 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Third Birth of Confucius written by Kashi Ram Sharma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Birth of Confucius deals with the Chinese sage and philosopher Confucius and his philosophical and politico-cultural legacies. As the title suggests, Confucius has once again taken birth in China. Confucius ‘died’ for the first time when he gave way to Buddhism in the tenth century, but was reinvented again (Neo-Confucianism). This was the second birth of Confucius. In the twentieth century, under the influence of western ideas China’s liberals and Marxists abandoned Confucius again. But how long can a civilization live without any ideational orientation? Hence, the third birth of Confucius from AD 2000 onwards. Confucius is emerging as a proxy word for cultural nationalism. In fact, it is not one Confucius who is taking birth in China but two. One is the common man’s Confucius, which is authentic and genuine. The other Confucius is promoted by the Chinese Government. The author believes that soon either China will embrace democracy or it may implode and disintegrate like the former Soviet Union. This book is an attempt to unravel the muddled reality of China and will definitely prove a landmark work in the field of Chinese Studies.

Reading China Against the Grain

by Carlos Rojas

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-28
ISBN 13 : 1000216519
Total Pages : 238 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (21 users downloads)

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Download or read book Reading China Against the Grain written by Carlos Rojas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of a wide array of contemporary Chinese literature from inside and outside of China, this volume considers some of the ways in which China and Chineseness are understood and imagined. Using the central theme of the way in which literature has the potential to both reinforce and to undermine a national imaginary, the volume contains chapters offering new perspectives on well-known authors, from Jin Yucheng to Nobel Prize winning Mo Yan, as well as chapters focusing on authors rarely included in discussions of contemporary Chinese literature, such as the expatriate authors Larissa Lai and Xiaolu Guo. The volume is complemented by chapters covering more marginalized literary figures throughout history, such as Macau-born poet Yiling, the Malaysian-born novelist Zhang Guixing, and the ethnically Korean author Kim Hak-ch’ŏl. Invested in issues ranging from identity and representation, to translation and grammar, it is one of the few publications of its kind devoting comparable attention to authors from Mainland China, authors from Manchuria, Macau, and Taiwan, and throughout the global Chinese diaspora. Reading China Against the Grain: Imagining Communities is a rich resource of literary criticism for students and scholars of Chinese studies, sinophone studies, and comparative literature

World Literature and Dissent

by Lorna Burns

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-08
ISBN 13 : 1351357719
Total Pages : 204 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (135 users downloads)

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Download or read book World Literature and Dissent written by Lorna Burns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts including the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness. Addressing a broad range of examples, from the Maghrebian humanist Ibn Khaldūn to India’s Facebook poets and examining writers such as Langston Hughes, Ben Okri, Sara Uribe, and Merle Collins, this highly relevant book reframes the field of world literature in relation to dissenting politics and aesthetic. It asks the urgent question: how critical practice might cultivate radical thought, further social justice, and value human expression?

The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination

by Haiyan Lee

Publisher : Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-12
ISBN 13 : 0804793549
Total Pages : 376 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (479 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination written by Haiyan Lee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin." There has been a pervasive sense of moral crisis in contemporary China, and the new market economy doesn't seem to offer any solutions. This book investigates how the Chinese have coped with the condition of modernity in which strangers are routinely thrust together. Haiyan Lee dismisses the easy answers claiming that this "moral crisis" is merely smoke and mirrors conjured up by paternalistic, overwrought leaders and scholars, or that it can be simply chalked up to the topsy-turvy of a market economy on steroids. Rather, Lee argues that the perception of crisis is itself symptomatic of a deeper problem that has roots in both the Confucian tradition of kinship and the modern state management of stranger sociality. This ambitious work is the first to investigate the figure of the stranger—foreigner, peasant migrant, bourgeois intellectual, class enemy, unattached woman, animal—across literature, film, television, and museum culture. Lee's aim is to show that hope lies with a robust civil society in which literature and the arts play a key role in sharpening the moral faculties and apprenticing readers in the art of living with strangers. In so doing, she makes a historical, comparative, and theoretically informed contribution to the on-going conversation on China's "(un)civil society."

Nobel and Lasker Laureates of Chinese Descent

by Todd S. Ing

Publisher : World Scientific
Release Date : 2019
ISBN 13 : 9814704628
Total Pages : 420 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (47 users downloads)

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Download or read book Nobel and Lasker Laureates of Chinese Descent written by Todd S. Ing and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the turn of the 20th century, the Boxer Uprising marked the culmination of a violent and tragic chapter in Chinese history. Out of the ashes of this calamity, scholarships funded by Boxer Indemnity and many others fostered some of the greatest minds in the Chinese modern era. This book celebrates notable luminary scholars of Chinese descent, with a special focus on 1 Wolf Prize, 4 Lasker, and 11 Nobel laureates spanning a wide range of disciplines in both literature and science. We visit the struggles of pioneers Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang as the first Chinese Nobel prize recipients for characterizing fundamental laws in elementary-particle physics. Their pioneering works have paved the way for many to follow. We chronicle the careers of more recent recipients, including Mo Yan and his celebration of peasant life in China through the lens of hallucinatory realism. We delve into the lives of these Laureates, witness the obstacles that they overcame, and testify to their lasting contributions to humankind. In recounting the intellectual struggles and triumphs of these pioneers of Chinese heritage, we hope to inspire the next generation of scholars in literature and science worldwide in the hope that they too might become laureates one day"--Publisher's website.

Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

by Li-hua Ying

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-11-15
ISBN 13 : 1538130068
Total Pages : 825 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (813 users downloads)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature written by Li-hua Ying and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world. As it has been challenged and enriched by external influences, it has contributed to the wealth of literary culture of the entire world. In terms of themes and styles, modern Chinese literature is rich and varied; from the revolutionary to the pastoral, from romanticism to feminism, from modernism to post-modernism, critical realism, psychological realism, socialist realism, and magical realism. Indeed, it encompasses a full range of ideological and aesthetic concerns. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.

English Literature

by Ezekiel Leon

Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
Release Date : 2019-01-28
ISBN 13 : 1839472979
Total Pages : pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (947 users downloads)

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Download or read book English Literature written by Ezekiel Leon and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book methodicallly graphs the direction of the English novel from its rise as the chief scholarly class in the mid twentieth century to its mid twenty first century status of unpredictable greatness in new media conditions. Precise parts address 'The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre', 'The Novel in the Economy', 'Genres', 'Gender' (performativity, masculinities, woman's rights, eccentric), and 'The Burden of Representation' (class and ethnicity). Broadened contextualized close readings of more than twenty key writings from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015) supplement the methodical approach and energize future research by giving reviews of gathering and hypothetical points of view. Expanding specialization inside the teach of English and American Studies has moved the concentration of insightful dialog toward hypothetical reflection and social settings. These improvements have profited the train in more courses than one, yet they have likewise brought about a specific disregard of close perusing. Therefore, understudies and scientists inspired by such material are compelled to swing to grant from the 1970s, quite a bit of which depends on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook means to fill this hole by giving new readings of writings that figure unmistakably in the writing classroom and in academic level headed discussion aE ' from James' The Ambassadors to McCarthy's The Road.