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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Modern Chinese Literature"”.
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The Path Toward the Other: Relational Subjectivity in Modern Chinese Literature, 1919-1945
… territory of relational subjectivity in modern Chinese literature. As a model of identity that positions the self in a web of social interaction, emotional connectivity, relational subjectivity suggests that the self is continually partial, open, and constantly "under construction." …
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Casting off the shackles of family: Ibsen's Nora character in modern Chinese literature, 1918-1942
"Among a gallery of female characters which Mao Tun creates, Hsien-hsien in the story ""Creation"" and Mei in the novel Rainbow are typical Nora figures. Both of them leave the family and try to seek self-fulfillment by participating in social movements. However, the pursuit of personal fulfillment …
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Representing Divorce, Reforming Interiority: Narratives of Gender, Class and Family in Post-Reform Chinese Literature and Culture
"This project stands at the juncture of modern Chinese literature, post-socialist studies, cultural history of divorce, and critical studies about global middle-class cultures. Employing analytical tools mainly from literary studies, cultural studies and feminist theories, I examine stories, …
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Blurring the lines : postmodernism and the use of tradition in the works of Yu Hua
The modern Chinese writer Yu Hua (1960-) uses and incorporates a wide variety of arguably postmodernist techniques and themes in his fiction. There are, however, parallels between these themes and techniques and various aspects of pre-modern Chinese literature and philosophy. Additionally, in an at …
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‘The Bridge’: How The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950) shaped twentieth-century responses to China
… thesis examines the short stories about China by Chinese and British writers published in the journal The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950). The writers were responding to a traumatic period in history spanning part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II and its aftermath. TPNW, promoted …
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A materialism of entangled corporeality: Hu Feng in a modern world
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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The "sent-down" vision: poetics and politics of Zhiqing literature in post-Mao China
… dissertation investigates the ways in which the literature of the zhiqing generation has contributed an important alternative voice in post-Mao China’s modernity discourse. Zhiqing refers to the millions of urban junior high and high school students who were “sent down to the countryside” to …
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困厄中的自我修辞： 新中国时期的丰子恺研究 = EXPRESSIONS IN DILEMMA:STUDIES ON FENG ZIKAI IN THE P.R.C. (1949-1975)
… the years of 1949-1975, under the socialist Chinese literary system, the roles and cultural practices of Chinese intellectuals were greatly affected by the immensely changed cultural policies and political environment. This dissertation launches an in-depth study on the competing expressions, …