{"product_id":"liu-zaifu-selected-critical-essays-9789004449114","title":"Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiu Zaifu 劉再復 is a name that has already been ingrained within contemporary Chinese literary history. This landmark volume presents Anglophone readers with Liu’s profound reflections on Chinese literature and culture at different times. These critical essays deal with cultural criticism and literary theory, literary history, and individual modern and contemporary Chinese writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From an editorial perspective, the selection of essays and the quality of the translations are very good, and both the volume’s preface (authored by David Der-wei Wang) and introduction (authored by the volume’s co-editors) are excellent. The translators and editors have included in-line Chinese characters for all proper names, titles of texts, and some specialized terminology, and have also added bibliographic footnotes where needed...The present volume offers English-language readers a small sampling of [Liu Zaifu's] formidable body of work.\"  -Carlos Rojas, Duke University, in MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright November, 2021)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: “Standing Alone atop the Mountain; Walking Freely under the Sea”  Acknowledgments  Introduction   Liu Jianmei and Howard Y. F. Choy    part 1: Literary History  1 Literary History as Paradox   Translated by Howard Y. F. Choy    2 The End of Modern Chinese Revolutionary Literature   Translated by Steven Day    3 From the Monologic Era to the Polyphonic Era     An Outline of Forty Years of Literary Development in Mainland China   Translated by Ke Wei and Torbjörn Lodén    part 2: Cultural Criticism and Literary Theory  4 Traditional Chinese Culture’s Designs on Humanity   Translated by Deirdre Sabina Knight    5 On the Stylistic Revolution of Literary Criticism in the 1980s   Translated by Ann Huss    6 Farewell to the Gods    Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory’s Fin-de-siècle Struggle   Translated by Steven Day    7 Literature Exiling the State   Translated by Torbjörn Lodén    8 The Dimensions of Modern Chinese Literature and Their Limitations   Translated by Eileen J. Cheng    part 3: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Writers  9 Lu Xun and Chinese\/Foreign Culture   Translated by Alan Berkowitz and Haili Kong    10 Miracle and Tragedy in Modern Chinese Literature    In Honor of Lu Xun’s 120th Birthday   Translated by Lianying Shan    11 Eileen Chang’s Fiction and C. T. Hsia’s A History of Modern Chinese Fiction   Translated by Yunzhong Shu    12 Escape of the Mental Prisoner    In Honor of Gao Xingjian   Translated by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes    13 A Comparative Study of Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan   Translated by Jessica Yeung    Postcript: Translation, Quotation, and Expatriation  Selected Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210817167703,"sku":"9789004449114","price":143.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/liu-zaifu-selected-critical-essays-9789004449114","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}