The Indiana companion to traditional Chinese literature
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There are two volumes. The second volume is a supplement to the previously published first volume. The first volume was published in 1986, the second volume was published in 1998. Both volumes have entries on individual writers. The first volume begins with ten essays on different literary genres.
Historical dictionary of modern Chinese literature
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Covers 1900 to the present. Useful features are the chronology, the dictionary entries, and the bibliography. Not that the bibliography has two major sections. The first section starting on page 297 lists primary works by authors (in both Chinese and in translation). The second section starting on page 411 lists "Critical works on individual authors".
Lists research on individual writers. Prepared by the MCLC RESOURCE CENTER. (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture)
Literature - History and Criticism
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature by Kang-i Sun Chang (Editor); Stephen Owen (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780521116770
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
The History offers both an integrated narrative, situating literature in its larger cultural context, and an overview of the key developments of the past millennia accessible to non-specialist readers as well as scholars and students of Chinese.
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature by Victor H. Mair (Editor)
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ISBN: 0231109849
Publication Date: 2002-03-19
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the role of women, and China's relationship with non-Sinitic languages and peoples. Opening with a major section on the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature, the anthology traces the development of forms and movements over time, along with critical trends, and pays particular attention to the premodern canon.
A Concise History of Chinese Literature by Yuming Luo; Yang Ye (Translator)
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ISBN: 9789004203662
Publication Date: 2011-06-09
A history of Chinese literature from its early beginnings through the end of the Qing dynasty, this recent work from Professor Luo Yuming of China s Fudan University seeks to provide, by adopting new theoretical perspectives and using updated research, a coherent, panoramic description of the development of Chinese literature and its major characteristics. As one of the very few English translations of such works by Chinese authors it seeks to inform the Western audience of the recent viewpoints and scholarship on the topic from a leading Chinese scholar. It may also provide some grounds of comparison and contrast with equivalent works in the West.
Chinese Literature by Sabina Knight
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ISBN: 9780195392067
Publication Date: 2012-02-03
Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philosophy as well as poetry and poetics, storytelling, drama, and the novel, Sabina Knight discusses the philosophical foundations of literary culture as well as literature's power to address historical trauma and cultivate moral and sensual passions. Knight draws on lively examples to underscore the close relationship between ethics and aesthetics, as well as the diversity of Chinese thought. Knight also illuminates the role of elite patronage; the ways literature has served the interests of specific groups; and questions of canonization, language, nationalism, and cross-cultural understanding.
Literature - Modern Period
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online (DLB)
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Provides the full text of thousands of biographical and critical essays on important literary figures from all eras, genres, and geographic areas. Many essays include manuscript pages, portraits, excerpts of criticism, bibliographies, and more. Browse by author or by volume, or search the full text. Publication of DLB began in 1978 and is ongoing.
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature by Joshua S. Mostow; Kirk A. Denton (Assisted by); Bruce Fulton (Assisted by); Lewis Cook (Assisted by); Sharalyn Orbaugh
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ISBN: 0231113145
Publication Date: 2003-07-10
This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language and is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures.
A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature by Michael M. Day (Translator); Hong Zicheng
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ISBN: 9789004157545
Publication Date: 2007-10-15
History that covers the 1950s through the 1990s. An interesting feature is the "Chronology of Contemporary Literature in China" that starts on page 451.