Invisible Signature: Modern Chinese Poetry and Christian Theology

Author: Tang Xiaolin
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Publish Date: 2005-10-17
Features: In the twilight of confession, completing my evening prayer of gratitude in the warm light. This book explores the relationship between modern Chinese poetics and Christianity, addressing the issue of value determination in the modernity movement of modern Chinese literature over the past century, which holds significant academic frontiers. —Wang Yuanchuan
The topic of this book is of great significance. In Chinese academia, there has been a lack of research on the relationship between Christianity and modern Chinese poetics. The study in this book holds pioneering importance. —Yu Hong
The author of this book demonstrates rigorous thinking, constructing a rich and logically coherent poetic framework from multiple perspectives and levels. —Zhang Sanxi
This book adopts the perspective of the relationship between modern Chinese poetics and Christianity, (entry point) from the issue of constructing the modernity value of Chinese poetics, expanding and deepening the research on the relationship between modern Chinese literature and Christian culture. —Yang Jianlong
This book strives to transcend the usual historical review and analysis of writers and works, focusing instead on poetic theories and literary spirits that are deeply embedded in modern and contemporary Chinese literary phenomena and pervasive throughout the literary world. It meticulously analyzes the intrinsic connection between modern and contemporary literature and Christian culture, offering compelling insights into the theoretical issues in the modern transformation of traditional Chinese literary theory. This book holds significant theoretical significance for objectively understanding the basic nature and characteristics of modern and contemporary Chinese literary theory, as well as considerable practical value for advancing the study of foreign influences on modern and contemporary Chinese literature. —Liang Gong
This is the first academic monograph in China systematically studying the relationship between modern Chinese poetics and Christianity. Standing at the height of contemporary Chinese intellectual history, the book engages in an in-depth dialogue between modern Chinese poetics and Western Christianity within a broad academic framework. It attempts to resolve the foundational value issues in the modernity movement of Chinese literature over the past century through phenomenological reduction and value judgment, as well as microanalysis and macrointegration. The book examines the Christian context of modern Chinese poetics, clarifies the discourse logic of modern Chinese studies and Christianity, analyzes the intrinsic connections between enlightenment poetics, universal poetics, love poetics, existential poetics, folk poetics, and Christian workers, and explores the pivotal role of Christianity in the modernization of Chinese poetics. It uncovers many historical truths obscured by traditional academia and proposes numerous novel, insightful, and thought-provoking perspectives, establishing a relatively complete research framework for modern Chinese poetics.