Research on Modern Chinese Literary Trends

Author: Liu Zengsheng
Publisher: Henan University Press
内容简介:
Throughout the history of human civilization, there are few cultures as splendid, continuous, and enduring as that of the Chinese nation. The Chinese civilization is like an unending river, sparkling with stars, leaving one awestruck and speechless. After the Opium War, facing the new global landscape and the large-scale influx of Western learning that accompanied the imperialistic military might, the Chinese civilization, which had developed and thrived in relative isolation in the East, began to face severe shocks and challenges. Embracing these inevitable impacts and challenges, reviving the vitality and brilliance of Chinese civilization, and choosing the path of national cultural renewal and self-strengthening became a crucial issue for modern China and the Chinese nation. Since the Opium War, through the arduous struggles and explorations of generations of dedicated scholars and the long, rapid transformations over several decades, by the May Fourth period, Chinese culture and literature had largely completed its painful transformation from classical to modern, taking firm and determined steps toward the modern era. Modern Chinese literature originated during the May Fourth Movement, while the literature of the late Qing period that followed the Opium War laid its foundation and paved the way.
目录:
Introduction: The Difficult Transformation of Chinese Literature from Classical to Modern
Part 1: May Fourth Literary Trends
Chapter 1: The Emergence of May Fourth Literary Trends
1. Social and Cultural Background
2. Hu Shi and May Fourth Literary Trends
3. The Connotation and Characteristics of the New Trend (Part 1)
4. The Connotation and Characteristics of the New Trend (Part 2)
5. Response, Resistance, and Reconciliation
6. The Three Main Streams
Chapter 2: The Flourishing of Realist Literary Trends
1. An Outline of the Evolution
2. The Offspring of the Intersection of Eastern and Western Cultures
3. Mao Dun and Lu Xun
4. When Will the "Great Transformation Period" Arrive?
Chapter 3: The Brilliance of Romantic Literary Trends
1. Not an "Upstart"
2. The "Goddess" Who Refused to "Sink"
3. Individualism, The Refined Scholar, and Others
4. "On the Way to Directional Conversion"
Chapter 4: The Confusion of Modernist Literary Trends
1. The Late Arriving Vanguards: Modernism?
2. Light Rain, Bamboo Forest, Wild Gales, and Wild Grass: Modernism!
3. Historical Regrets: Modernism
Part 2: Literary Trends of the 1930s
Chapter 5: The Transformation of Realist Literary Trends
1. The Political and Cultural Atmosphere of the Transformation
2. The Skewness of Literary Views in the "Revolutionary Literature" Debate
3. The Misleading Influence of "Materialist-Dialectical Method of Creation"
4. The Correction of "Socialist Realist Method of Creation"
Chapter 6: The Peak of Modernist Literary Trends
1. The Opportunity for the Peak
2. The Artistic Pursuits of the New Sensory School
3. The Aesthetic Orientation of the Modern Poetry School
4. A Comparison Between Eastern and Western Modernists
5. The Value Judgment of Modernist Literature
Chapter 7: The Decline of Romantic Literary Trends
1. An Overview of the Reasons for Decline
2. Thematic Paradigms of Romantic Literature
3. Aesthetic Characteristics of Romantic Literature
Chapter 8: The Formation of the Main Current of Realism
Part 3: Literary Trends of the 1940s
Chapter 9: The Development Direction of War-Time Literary Trends
Chapter 10: The Main Current of Realism (Part 1)
Chapter 11: The Main Current of Realism (Part 2)
Chapter 12: Romanticism and Modernism in the 1940s
Chapter 13: The Direction of Literary Trends in Occupied Areas
Conclusion: An Unresolved End