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Author:   Chen Xiaoming ,  Zhang Xiaoqin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.810kg
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9781032036397

ISBN 10:   1032036397
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   29 July 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1. A Short Biography of Jia Pingwa Part I Overview of Research on Jia Pingwa 2. Research on Jia Pingwa in China 3. The Study of the Spread and Influence of Jia Pingwa’s Works outside of China 4. Translation and Studies of Jia Pingwa’s Works in the English-speaking World Part II Research on Jia Pingwa 5. The Descriptive Art of Jia Pingwa’s Works 6. Preface to Jia Pingwa’s Essay Moontrace 7. Shangzhou: Jia Pingwa’s World of Novel 8. The Aestheticization of Life—An Analysis of Jia Pingwa’s Personality and Temperament 9. The Struggle of the Soul—An Analysis of Ruined City 10. An Informal Discussion on Ruined City 11. An Analysis of Jia Pingwa 12. People and Culture: The Pursuit of “Countrymen”—A Comparative Research on Works of Shen Congwen and Jia Pingwa 13. Concern and Worry about Contemporary China—A Review of Jia Pingwa’s Novel, The Earthen Gate 14. The Literary Significance of Jia Pingwa 15. An Analysis of Jia Pingwa’s Literary Creation 16. Concern of Survival—An Analysis of Jia Pingwa’s Psychological Landscape and Personality 17. Rereading Ruined City 18. Honoring the Soul, Contemplating Life—An Analysis of Jia Pingwa, Qin Opera and Its Narrative Ethics 19. The Literary Prowess of Jia Pingwa 20. An Analysis of Zhuang Zhidie 21. The Narrative of Violence and Lyrical Style— An Analysis of Jia Pingwa’s Old Kiln and Other Works 22. A Disciple of Nature—An Analysis of Jia Pingwa’s Literary Perspective 23. Jia Pingwa’s Affinity for Music, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting 24. Through My Eyes: Jia Pingwa 25. He Writes “in Wolf Skin”—Looking at Jia Pingwa’s “Turn” from Cherish the Memory of the Wolf 26. Who is Awake when Laosheng Dreams of Butterfly—Jia Pingwa’s Laosheng 27. Jia Pingwa and the Formation of Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Novels 28. Beyond or Behind the Blankness—Notes of Reading Jia Pingwa’s Blankness 29. Birth and Death of Countless “Thoughts”— An Analysis of Shanben 30. The Second Turning Point on Jia Pingwa’s Creative Road

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Chen Xiaoming is Professor and the Dean of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University, Beijing, China. He specializes in literary criticism of modern and contemporary Chinese literature and postmodern literary theory. Zhang Xiaoqin is Professor at Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China. Her research focuses on ideological trends in literature and the works of major writers in modern China.

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