Andrea Riemenschnitter - Böcker

Dieser dem 2008 emeritierten Zürcher Sinologen Robert H. Gassmann gewidmete Band enthält siebzehn Beiträge aus dem Kreis seiner Fachkolleginnen und -kollegen. Die einzelnen Studien umfassen historisch und disziplinär verschiedene Arbeitsbereiche des Faches Sinologie, von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, von der Archäologie bis zur Kulturwissenschaft. Den Forschungsschwerpunkten Robert Gassmanns entsprechend bilden philologisch-historische Arbeiten zu chinesischen Texttraditionen einen Schwerpunkt. Daneben befassen sich mehrere Beiträge mit bestimmten Aspekten der Han-Zeit, mit den Grabfunden von Mawangdui und mit dem Zhuangzi.

The 1919 May Fourth movement was the breeding ground for experiments by authors inspired by new world literary trends. Under Mao Zedong, folk songs accompanied political campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward. Misty Poetry of the 1980s contributed to the humanistic discourse of the post-Mao reform era. The most recent stage in Chinese poetry resonates with contemporary concerns, such as technological innovation, environmental degradation, socio-political transformations, and the return of geopolitical Cold War divisions. In search of creative responses to the crisis, poets frequently revisit the past while holding on to their poetic language of self-reflection and social critique. This volume identifies three foci in contemporary poetry discourses: formal crossovers, multiple realities, and liquid boundaries. These three themes often intersect within texts from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan discussed in the book.

With the inclusion of twelve original articles by established and emerging international scholars, this volume offers critical reading of literary and cinematic texts produced in China and Sinophone communities between the 1950s and 2010s. The articles portray the lineage and mutations of the Chinese Bildungsroman, providing insights into the tensions between individual and society; nation and the world; and the multiple social, ecological, and virtual realities of recent decades. Concerned with how coming-of-age narratives have persistently returned and evolved over time, the book addresses themes such as family and social change; gender, class, and generational divides, local/global politics, and the ecological and posthuman turns in Chinese/Sinophone culture. It offers a fresh look on how the transnational and transgenerational journeys of Bildungsroman and coming-of-age narratives continuously transform and reinvigorate generic conventions, to explore adolescence as a formative social force and aesthetic experience in Chinese/Sinophone literature and film.This book aims to open up dialogues for better understanding emergent cultural forms that reflect social instability arising from the global spread of contemporary neo-liberal capitalism, and to constitute the foundation of an innovative history of Sinophone literature. It does not only take into account the complicated survival struggles of the subjects of Mao's revolution including refugee-immigrants turned colonial subjects, but also the interaction between literature and the arts as well as between human and nonhuman agents (place, material culture, nature, etc.).

This book engages with cultural representations of the multifarious subjectivities of Chinese migrant communities, including analyses of aesthetic texts, as well as theoretical approaches in cultural studies.