Cross-disciplinary Integration: A Comprehensive Overview of World Chinese Literature

Author: Liu Jun
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Positioning one's work as conducting basic research, honestly starting from specific writers, works, and issues, analyzing certain literary phenomena, and commenting on the successes and failures of writers' creations—these are fundamental principles of my research in world Chinese literature. If my future research can surpass its current state and move towards a more systematic approach, it must be built upon this foundation.—Liu Jun
If compared to From Taiwan and Hong Kong to Overseas—A Multifaceted Examination of Cross-Regional Chinese Literature, the scope of research in Compassionate Sentiment—A Biography of Ba Xianyong has been expanded. Then, this book further extends the framework of From Taiwan and Hong Kong to Overseas—A Multifaceted Examination of Cross-Regional Chinese Literature. It not only incorporates modern Chinese literature into the discussion, thereby broadening the scope, but also explores a wider variety of issues.
The book is divided into three parts, some of which focus on specific issues, others on writers, and yet others on research works. However, all parts implicitly follow a historical continuity and outward expansion from "May Fourth" literature to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Chinese literature (cross-regional Chinese literature). Of course, the overly broad interests make the topics somewhat scattered, resulting in a lack of systematicity in the book's themes and weak internal connections between them. The scattered perspective remains the basic structural form of this book.
If asked about the internal connections between the different chapters of this book, I can only say: with the world as the scope and Chinese (Mandarin) as the medium, this book showcases the external appearance and symbiotic forms of modern Chinese literature (mainland China) and Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Chinese literature (cross-regional Chinese literature). This is the implicit thread and the structural foundation of the book.