MODERN CHINESE LITERARY THOUGHT

by Denton, Kirk A.

• ISBN13: 9780804725583
• ISBN10: 0804725586
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
General Introduction	1	(64)
Kirk A. Denton
PART I: THE LATE QING PERIOD, 1893--1911
Introduction	65	(4)
Preface to Poems from the Hut in the Human World	69	(2)
Huang Zunxian
Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation	71	(3)
Liang Qichao
On the Relationship Between Fiction and the Government of the People	74	(8)
Liang Qichao
Preface to Oliver Twist	82	(2)
Lin Shu
Preface to Part One of David Copperfield	84	(3)
Lin Shu
Miscellaneous Notes on Literature (excerpts)	87	(3)
Liu Shipei
Incidental Remarks on Literature	90	(6)
Wang Guowei
On the Power of Mara Poetry	96	(27)
Lu Xun
PART II: THE MAY FOURTH PERIOD, 1915-1925
Introduction	113	(10)
Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature	123	(17)
Hu Shi
On Literary Revolution	140	(6)
Chen Duxiu
Nightmare	146	(5)
Lin Shu
Humane Literature	151	(11)
Zhou Zuoren
On the Literary Arts (excerpts)	162	(7)
Ye Shengtao
Art and Life	169	(13)
Xu Zhimo
Replacing Religion with Aesthetic Education	182	(8)
Cai Yuanpei
Literature and Life	190	(6)
Mao Dun
On Photography	196	(8)
Lu Xun
Preface to The Sorrows of Young Werther	204	(9)
Guo Moruo
Fusing with Nature	213	(5)
Liang Shiqiu
A Critique of the New Culturists	218	(10)
Mei Guangdi
Women and Literature	228	(5)
Zhou Zuoren
On ``Literary Criticism''	233	(2)
Bing Xin
My Opinions on Creativity	235	(3)
Lu Yin
Preface to Call to Arms	238	(5)
Lu Xun
Remarks on the Publication of Saturday	243	(2)
Wang Dungen
Congratulations to Happy Magazine	245	(2)
Zhou Shoujuan
The Mission of the New Literature	247	(16)
Cheng Fangwu
PART III: REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE, 1923-1930
Introduction	257	(6)
Class Struggle in Literature	263	(6)
Yu Dafu
From a Literary Revolution to a Revolutionary Literature	269	(7)
Cheng Fangwu
The Bygone Age of Ah Q	276	(13)
Qian Xingcun
On Reading Ni Huanzhi	289	(18)
Mao Dun
Literature and Revolution	307	(9)
Liang Shiqiu
Dai Wangshu's Poetic Theory	316	(2)
Dai Wangshu
Form in Poetry	318	(10)
Wen Yiduo
The Divergence of Art and Politics	328	(7)
Lu Xun
Thoughts on Realism	335	(10)
Zhou Yang
Realism: A ``Correction''	345	(18)
Hu Feng
PART IV: THE DEBATE ON LITERARY FREEDOM, 1932-1935
Introduction	359	(4)
Do Not Encroach Upon Literary Art	363	(4)
Hu Qiuyuan
Regarding the Literary News and Hu Qiuyuan's Literary Arguments	367	(9)
Su Wen
Freedom for Literature but Not the Writer	376	(7)
Qu Qiubai
On the ``Third Category''	383	(4)
Lu Xun
Preface to Public Cemetery	387	(3)
Mu Shiying
A Record of My Own Inspiration	390	(2)
Li Jinfa
Literature and Life	392	(17)
Zhu Guangqian
PART V: THE PERIOD OF NATIONAL CRISIS, 1936-1945
Introduction	403	(6)
On National Defense Literature	409	(6)
Zhou Yang
What Do the Broad Masses Demand of Literature?	415	(3)
Hu Feng
The Question of Popular Literature and Art	418	(10)
Qu Qiubai
Excerpts from Mao Zedong	428	(5)
Mao Zedong
Literature and Art for the Masses and the Use of Traditional Forms	433	(3)
Mao Dun
My Writing	436	(7)
Zhang Ailing
On Writers	443	(7)
Qian Zhongshu
Universal or Restricted?	450	(5)
Shen Congwen
We Need the Zawen Essay	455	(3)
Ding Ling
Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art	458	(27)
Mao Zedong
Realism Today	485	(8)
Hu Feng
Reference Matter
Glossary	493	(28)
Bibliography	521	(16)
Translators	537	(2)
Index	539