Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Discourses
Summary
Modern Chinese literary and cultural discourses encompass a century-long conversation that spans early twentieth-century reform movements, mid-century political upheavals and the digital transformations of recent decades. At stake are questions of national identity, the negotiation of tradition and modernity and the role of translation as a vector of transnational exchange. Early republican writers reshaped classical forms to engage social realities, while late twentieth-century novelists and filmmakers reconfigured personal narratives in response to reform and opening-up. Contemporary scholarship and creative practice explore the reimagining of canonical texts, the rise of new genres in online settings and the mobilisation of literary memory in film, theatre and digital media. Across critical, pedagogical and popular arenas, modern Chinese discourse has become a site for analysing the dynamics of cultural circulation, the politics of memory and the interplay of local voices with global currents.
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Technical terms
Canon consciousness: Awareness of a work’s status within an established literary tradition.
Translingual practice: The creative and critical engagement with multiple languages within a single text or discourse.
Digital memory space: Online environments where collective recollection and discussion of literary texts occur.
Cultural circulation: The movement and transformation of cultural forms across social and national boundaries.
References
- The Reception of Jane Austen in Early Modern China: A Canonical Perspective. Humanities (2022).
- Between Passion and Compassion: The Story of the Stone and Its Modern Reincarnations. Religions (2021).
- The Internet, Shanghainese Novel, and the Literary Memory of Blossoms. Writing Chinese A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature (2024).
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