Overview
- Traces the origin and evolvement of two Chinese characters “wenxue”(literature)
- Applies methods of conceptual history and historical and cultural semantics
- Discovers the historical and cultural connotations hidden behind the characters
Part of the book series: Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture (KCCTC)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book traces the origin and evolvement of two Chinese characters “wenxue”(literature) by using the methods of conceptual history and historical and cultural semantics, and by taking the evolution and changes of the concept of the these two characters and their interpretations in the west as a window, and re-examining the contemporary morphology of concept evolution in the historical context of concept generation and development to discover the historical and cultural connotations hidden behind the characters, so as to embark on a vivid journey to explore the history of literary thought, discipline and culture.
The entire book is woven with the concept of “literature” at its core. Following the author's analysis and interpretation, an interlocking and orderly network of description of ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign unfolds. In this context, the chapters are progressive and mutually responsive, forming an organic whole which is connectedat the beginning and the end. For those readers who are trying to understand how Chinese “wenxue” evolved from one of the “four disciplines of Confucius” into a modern discipline and concept, this book will provide the most detailed, in-depth, and vivid historical picture.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Laiming Yu, Doctor of Chinese Literature, post-doctor in History, is now a Luojia Distinguished Professor and doctoral supervisor at Wuhan University, the deputy director of the Center of Traditional Chinese Cultural Studies, Wuhan University, and also a member of the Academic Committee of Wuhan University and the deputy director of the Professor Committee of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Discovery of Chinese Literature (Wenxue)
Authors: Laiming Yu
Translated by: Dan Qin
Series Title: Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4233-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4232-9Published: 16 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4235-0Due: 17 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-4233-6Published: 15 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-8464
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8472
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 132
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literature, general, Evolutionary Biology, Historical Linguistics, Philosophy, general