Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture

Cannibalizations of the Canon
Herausgeber: Chow, Eileen; Rojas, Carlos

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Produktbeschreibung

Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another. An international line up of contributors present detailed analyses of literary works and other cultural products that have previously been neglected by scholars, while also examining more familiar authors and works from provocative new angles.The essays include investigations into the cultural industries and contexts that produce the canonical and popular, the position of contemporary popular works at the interstices of nostalgia and amnesia, and also the ways in which cultural texts are inflected with gendered and erotic sensibilities while at the same time also functioning as objects of desire in its own right. As the only volume of its kind to cover the entire span of the 20th century, and also to consider the interplay of popular and canonical literature in modern China with comparable rigor, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture is an important resource for students and scholars of Chinese literature and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9780415667111
• ISBN-10: 0415667119
• Artikelnr.: 33257985

Autorenporträt

Carlos Rojas is Assistant Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow is Associate Professor of Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Disease of Canonicity Carlos Rojas Part 1: Producing
Popularity 1. Perverse Poems and Suspicious Salons: The Friday School in
Modern Chinese Literature Michel Hockx 2. The Formation of the
"Professional Author" as a Figure in Early Twentieth Century Vernacular
Fiction Alexander Des Forges 3. Serial Sightings: News, Novelties, and
Zhang Henshui's An Unofficial History of the Old Capital Eileen Cheng-yin
Chow 4. On the Literary Consecration of Jin Yong's Fiction John Christopher
Hamm Part 2: Canonical Reflections 5. An Archaeology of Repressed
Popularity: Zhou Shoujuan, Mao Dun, and Their 1920s Literary Polemics
Jianhua Chen 6. A Tale of Two Cities: Romance, Revenge, and Nostalgia in
Two Fin-de-Siècle Novels by Ye Zhaoyan and Zhang Beihai Michael Berry
7. From Romancing the State to Romancing the Store: Further Elaborations on
Some Motifs in Contemporary Taiwan Literature Ping-hui Liao Part 3:
Nostalgia and Amnesia 8. Rereading the Red Classics: "Bidding Farewell to
Revolution" and Red Nostalgia DAI Jinhua 9. The Reproduction of a Popular
Hero: Tsui Hark's Wong Fei-hong Weijie Song 10. Memory, Photographic
Seduction and Allegorical Correspondence: Eileen Chang's Mutual Reflections
Xiaojue Wang Part 4: Gender and Desire 11. Popular Literature and National
Representation: The Gender and Genre Politics of Begonia David Der-wei Wang
12. Asking Jin Yong, 'What is sentiment?' - Gifts, Love Letters, and
Material Evidence Hsiao-hung Chang 13. Authorial Afterlives and Apocrypha
in 1990s Chinese Fiction Carlos Rojas