Author: Xu Yuechun
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819776481
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Xu Yuechun
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9789819776474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book offers a detailed analysis of China’s original view of literature and art theory and critical practice from the ancient to the modern period, providing views on dancing, image making, the circulation of artifacts, critical theory, creative writing, art design, aesthetic, cyber arts, photography, etc. This book makes visible the traditional Chinese ideas, philosophy and practices on literature and art in the world and contributes to the diversity of current international literary and art studies. All 15 chapters are translations of selected high-quality original theoretical contributions on Chinese literary and art theory published in prestigious peer-reviewed Chinese journals, whose authors are established scholars in Chinese academia.

Author: Ming Deng
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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An introduction to a millennium's worth of Chinese paintings features 400 classical works by more than 240 artists that represent their different historical periods, in a volume that offers insight into how Chinese art uniquely reflects cultural perspectives and the natural world.

Author: Charles Alfred Speed Williams
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486233727
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Describes historical, legendary, and supernatural persons, animals, and objects that recur as symbols in Oriental art and literature

Author: Katharine P Burnett
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN: 9629964562
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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This book investigates the issue of conceptual originality in art criticism of the seventeenth century, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. In art criticism, the term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was "qi", literally, "different"; but secondarily, "odd," like a number and by extension, "the novel," and "extraordinary." This work finds that originality, expressed through visual difference, was a paradigmatic concern of both artists and critics. Burnett speculates on why many have dismissed originality as a possible "traditional Chinese" value, and the ramifications this has had on art historical understanding. She further demonstrates that a study of individual key terms can reveal social and cultural values and provides a linear history of the increase in critical use of "qi" as "originality" from the fifth through the seventeenth centuries, exploring what originality looks like in artworks by members of the gentry elite and commoner classes, and explains how the value lost its luster at the end of the seventeenth century.

Author: Yunte Huang
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393239489
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A panoramic vision of the Chinese literary landscape across the twentieth century. Award-winning literary scholar and poet Yunte Huang here gathers together an intimate and authoritative selection of significant works, in outstanding translations, from nearly fifty Chinese writers, that together express a search for the soul of modern China. From the 1912 overthrow of a millennia-long monarchy to the Cultural Revolution, to China’s rise as a global military and economic superpower, the Chinese literary imagination has encompassed an astonishing array of moods and styles—from sublime lyricism to witty surrealism, poignant documentary to the ironic, the transgressive, and the defiant. Huang provides the requisite context for these revelatory works of fiction, poetry, essays, letters, and speeches in helpful headnotes, chronologies, and brief introductions to the Republican, Revolutionary, and Post-Mao Eras. From Lu Xun’s Call to Arms (1923) to Gao Xinjiang’s Nobel Prize–winning Soul Mountain (1990), this remarkable anthology features writers both known and unknown in its celebration of the versatility of writing. From belles lettres to literary propaganda, from poetic revolution to pulp fiction, The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature is an eye-opening, mesmerizing, and indispensable portrait of China in the tumultuous twentieth century.

Author: Richard King
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774815426
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Chapters by scholars of Chinese history and art and by artists whose careers were shaped by the Cultural Revolution decode the rhetoric of China's turbulent decade. The many illustrations in the book, some familiar and some never seen before, also offer new insights into works that have transcended their times."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: André Lévy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253213655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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André Lévy provides a "picture of Chinese literature of the past" that brilliantly illustrates the four great literary genres of China: the classics, prose, poetry, and the literature of entertainment. His discussion of approximately 120 vivid translations combines personal insights with innovative historical accounts in a genre-based approach that moves beyond the typical chronology of dynasties. Renowned scholar William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translated Lévy's work from the French and returned to the original Chinese for the texts. This informative, engaging, and eminently readable introduction to the three millennia of traditional Chinese literature is highly recommended for students and general readers.

Author: Wu Hung
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870706470
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand contemporary Chinese art, one of the most fascinating art scenes of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Author: Alfreda Murck
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674007826
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some of China's elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, painting titles, contemporary inscriptions, and the historical context, Murck shows that certain paintings expressed strong political opinions--some transparent, others deliberately concealed.