The lyrical in epic time : modern Chinese intellectuals and artists through the 1949 crisis

The lyrical in epic time : modern Chinese intellectuals and artists through the 1949 crisis /

This work uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, the book contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordina...

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Main Author: Wang, Dewei (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015
Subjects:
Chinese literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > China.
Music > China > 20th century > History and criticism.
Painting, Chinese > 20th century > History and criticism.
Calligraphy, Chinese > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > China > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > China.
China > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Inventing the lyrical tradition
  • A history with feeling
  • The three epiphanies of Shen Congwen
  • Of dream and snake: He Qifang, Feng Zhi, and born-again lyricism
  • A lyricism of betrayal: the enigma of Hu Lancheng
  • The lyrical in an epic time: the music and poetry of Jiang Wenye
  • The riddle of the sphinx: Lin Fengmian and the polemics of realism in modern Chinese painting
  • The spring that brought eternal regret: Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the poetics of screening China
  • And history took a calligraphic turn: Tai Jingnong and the art of writing
  • Coda: Toward a critical lyricism.

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