LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Deconstruction criticism is one of the important literary criticism schools in the second half of the 20th century, which has opened up new fields of literary criticism with its unique critique strategies. This article takes Western deconstruction criticism as a reference and focuses on the deconstruction criticism of novels in China during the 1990s. It explores the evolution of deconstruction criticism in China an…

Reference · Wikidata

language group of the Sinitic languages

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Chinese is the umbrella term for almost all Sinitic languages except Macro-Bai languages, widely recognized as a collection of language varieties, natively spoken by the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities in Greater China, as well as by communities of the overseas Chinese. Approximately 1.39 billion people, or 17% of the global population, speak one of the varieties of Chinese as their first language.

Book · DOAB

As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and early empires, and spanning sources from philosophy, historiography, poetry, and technical literature, this study describes the whole life-cycle of multiple texts collected on a single manuscript. Dr…

Full text · Open Library

Drawing from a broad array of literary, historical, dramatic and anecdotal sources, Yenna Wu makes a rich exploration of an unusually prominent theme in premodern Chinese prose fiction and drama: that of jealous and belligerent wives, or viragos, who dominate their husbands and abuse other women. Focusing on Chinese literary works from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, she presents many colorful perspectiv…

Image · DPLA

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