Shi Zhecun (1905-2003) was a modern Chinese literary superstar. In the early 1930s, he had already established a canonical position for himself in the sphere of modernist fiction writing. But starting in fall 1937 w...
In this paper, we examine the various approaches toward literary classicism among contemporary Chinese poets. If "poetry of the establishment" features ideological conservatism and aesthetic populism, then its oppos...
This and the next special issues of Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (FLSC) are dedicated to exploring the diverse forms, functions, linguistic registers, and intellectual persuasions of modern Chinese classic...
It is an honor to guest-edit this FLSC special issue on Modem Chinese Lyric Classicism. In terms of subject matter, the contributions to this issue span the twentieth century, on the temporal axis, and China to the US...
In the past few decades, the field of late Qing poetry has rapidly evolved and continues to grow in exciting new directions. Before turning to the history of recent developments in the field, I will briefly introduce ...
This article explores the stylistic innovations in the Ancient-Style Verse (gutishi 古体诗), and particularly in the subgenre ofgexing 歌行, from the Late Qing to the 1930s and 1940s. It argues that the relative fre...
Henry Fielding,incontrovertibly praised as " the father of English novels,deserves another recognition,much more significantly,the first theorist on the obit of English novel with the theory of " comic epic poem in pr...
Rejection and denunciation of the poetics of "yanzhi" (literally "expressing one's thought or ideals") was once a marker of Chinese literature's modem transformation. However, right from the beginning of May F...