Belief, history, and the individual in modern Chinese literary culture (Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009)
Papers presented at the Macau Ricci Institute's symposium, November 2007
Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-181)
From red idealism to bloody romanticism: a study of old devil's biographical writing / Wang Xiaoyu -- Utopian fiction and critical examination: the cultural revolution in Wang Xiaobo's The golden age / Sebastian Veg -- Blending past and present: Wang Xiaobo's The bronze age / Chen Wenye -- Debates over the theory of human nature in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature / Yang Jianlong -- The bogeyman -- German melancholy and Chinese restlessness: Ye Shengtao's novel Ni huanzhi / Wolfgang Kubin -- Two ways of development for Christian poetry in post-Haizi China: between Chinese tradition and modern westernization / Liu Guangyao -- Rigidity and disappearance of the "self" as the main theme in modern Chinese women's literature / Jin Siyan -- Literature as phoenix: a case study of a Macau book-lover's collection / Tudor Vladescu -- Poetry writing and translation / Leung Ping-kwan -- Diversity as value: marginality, post-colonialism and identity in modern Chinese literature / Bonnie S. McDougall
A value system in constant change; a longing for stability amid uncertainties about the future; a new consciousness about the unlimited challenges and aspirations in modern life: these are themes in modern Chinese literature that attract the attention of