chinese literature thesis

Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) is published annually.

CLEAR journal is a leading resource for Chinese Literature academic discussion worldwide and has been published for over 30 years.

Click below for two most recent CLEAR journal Table of Contents.

CLEAR History

CLEAR was created based on discussions between eight scholars‒Eugene Eoyang, Joseph S. M. Lau, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Wu-chi Liu, Irving Lo, Ronald Miao, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., and William Schultz‒from the universities of Arizona, Indiana and Wisconsin spread over the early months of 1977. The journal was formally launched at a meeting on 18 March 1977 in Irving Lo’s living room in Bloomington, IN. Over the next year the founding editors, Eoyang and Nienhauser, received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association for Asian Studies, and the three affiliated universities as well as from members of the original editorial board (especially Elling Eide and Irving Lo) and individuals (especially Nancy C. Ing), allowing the production of the first two issues in 1979. Over the years CLEAR has published symposia, essays, articles, reviews and occasional forums on all aspects of traditional and modern Chinese literature. It is still the only western-language periodical devoted to Chinese literature. Having gained a worldwide reputation and audience, CLEAR now appears annually in December under the direction of editors Haun Saussy, Michelle Yeh and Rania Huntington.

Characters on the website were written by Chow Tse-tsung (1916-2007). Copyright © 2012-2024 by CLEAR | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) #0161-9705

About the Journal

The Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture  publishes research articles and essays on premodern Chinese literature and all aspects of the broader literary culture. It also publishes work that explores the influence of traditional literature and culture in modern and contemporary China. For some periods of the twentieth century, the study of premodern Chinese literature was considered by some an impediment to the rise of science and democracy, but it is now recognized in China as a valuable heritage that can enrich Chinese culture for the twenty-first century. Jointly sponsored by Peking University and the University of Illinois, the journal is committed to an international editorial vision and to in-depth exchange and collaboration among scholars in China, the United States, and other parts of the world. The Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture is indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI).

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals Distinguished Editor Award was presented to Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture  coeditor Zong-qi Cai in 2020.

Xingpei Yuan, Zong-qi Cai

Issue Alerts

Sign up to receive Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture table-of-contents alerts when a new issue is published.

Publish in this journal

For information on how to submit an article, visit our submission guidelines .

View subscription rates and details for Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture .

CELJ Distinguished Editor Award

Congratulations to Zong-qi Cai, recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Editor Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals!

Affiliations

• About Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
• Editorial Board
• For Authors
• Rights and Permissions Inquiry
• Online ISSN 2329-0056
• Print ISSN 2329-0048
• Copyright © 2024
• Duke University Press
• 905 W. Main St. Ste. 18-B
• Durham, NC 27701
• (888) 651-0122
• International
• +1 (919) 688-5134
• Information For
• Advertisers
• Book Authors
• Booksellers/Media
• Journal Authors/Editors
• Journal Subscribers
• Prospective Journals
• Licensing and Subsidiary Rights
• View Open Positions
• email Join our Mailing List
• catalog Current Catalog
• Accessibility
• Get Adobe Reader

This Feature Is Available To Subscribers Only

Sign In or Create an Account

• USC Libraries
• Research Guides
• Chinese Studies *
• Theses & Dissertations

Chinese Studies *: Theses & Dissertations

• All Chinese Studies Databases This link opens in a new window
• Chinese Diaspora Sources
• Classical Chinese Texts
• Conference Proceedings
• Digital Projects @ USC
• Films, Documentaries, etc.
• Historical Sources
• Laws & Policies
• Reference Tools
• Citation Guide
• East Asian Library homepage This link opens in a new window

Theses & Dissertations in Chinese

• China Research Gateway (CRG) This link opens in a new window CRG is a centralized means for discovery and access to a breadth of Chinese resources, including scholarly journals, monographs, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, dissertations, patents, and more.

• National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan 臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 Includes citations, abstracts, and some full text of dissertations and theses from Taiwan institutions. Please note that you need to create a free account with the site in order to access the full-text content.

Theses & Dissertations in Western Languages

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Database of dissertations and theses, including more than 1 million available full-text (PDF).
• International Chinese Studies Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts Database 典藏國際漢學博士論文摘要資料庫 Provides citations to 10,000+ dissertations from North American and West European institutions on Chinese studies. Useful for finding dissertations from Europe.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Collection of international open access electronic theses and dissertations.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window Database of free, open access full-text graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
• << Previous: Statistics
• Next: Citation Guide >>
• Last Updated: Apr 22, 2024 3:35 PM
• URL: https://libguides.usc.edu/chinese_studies

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Global chinese literature: critical essays.

Jing Tsu and David Der-wei Wang, eds. Brill Press Publication Date: 2010  

This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and global analyses. Each of the ten essays deals with a particular conceptual problem or case study of different locations and modalities of Chinese-language, or Sinophone, production. From language to music, literature to popular culture, minority politics to internal diaspora, theories of sinography to China’s quest for the Nobel Prize, this volume brings together leading and new voices in the study of Chineseliterature from a variety of comparative and intranational perspectives. Contributors include scholars from Asia, North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. It is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in contemporary China and the global politics of Sinophone literature.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Global Chinese Literature (Jing Tsu and David Der-wei Wang) 2. Minor Sinophone Literature: Diasporic Modernity’s Incomplete Journey (Kim Chew Ng) 3. Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Production (Shu-mei Shih) 4. Global Vision and Locatedness: World Literature in Chinese/by Chinese (Shijie huawen/huaren wenxue 世界華文／華人文學) from a Chinese Americanist Perspective (Sau-ling C. Wong) 5. (Re)mapping Sinophone Literature (Kim Tong Tee) 6. Sinophonics and the Nationalization of Chinese (Jing Tsu) 7. Alai and the Linguistic Politics of Internal Diaspora (Carlos Rojas) 8. Thinking with Food, Writing off Center: Notes on Two Hong Kong Authors (Rey Chow) 9. In Search of a Genuine Chinese Sound: Jiang Wenye and Modern Chinese Music (David Der-wei Wang) 10. Reinventing Chinese Writing: Zhang Guixing’s Sinographic Translations (Andrea Bachner) 11. Chinese Literature in the Global Canon: The Quest for Recognition (Julia Lovell) 12. Commentary: On the “Sainifeng 賽呢風” as a Global Literature (Eric Hayot)

Ask Yale Library

My Library Accounts

Find, Request, and Use

Help and Research Support

Visit and Study

Explore Collections

Chinese Studies: Theses

• Romanization
• Special Collections
• Database A-Z

Theses & Dissertations in Chinese

• 中国国家图书馆博士论文 (National Library of China Dissertations Database)
• 臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 (National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan)

Theses & Dissertations in Western Languages

• 典藏國際漢學博士論文摘要資料庫 (International Chinese Studies Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts Database)
• Index to Theses...Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland

Dissertation Reviews

• Dissertation Reviews-China
• << Previous: Books
• Next: Newspapers >>
• Last Updated: May 13, 2024 10:01 AM
• URL: https://guides.library.yale.edu/China

Site Navigation

P.O. BOX 208240 New Haven, CT 06250-8240 (203) 432-1775

Yale's Libraries

Bass Library

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Classics Library

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Divinity Library

East Asia Library

Gilmore Music Library

Haas Family Arts Library

Lewis Walpole Library

Lillian Goldman Law Library

Marx Science and Social Science Library

Sterling Memorial Library

Yale Center for British Art

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

@YALELIBRARY

Yale Library Instagram

Accessibility       Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion      Giving       Privacy and Data Use      Contact Our Web Team    

© 2022 Yale University Library • All Rights Reserved

ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst

• < Previous

Home > ETDS > Masters Theses > 834

Masters Theses

Off-campus UMass Amherst users: To download campus access dissertations, please use the following link to log into our proxy server with your UMass Amherst user name and password.

Non-UMass Amherst users: Please talk to your librarian about requesting this dissertation through interlibrary loan.

Dissertations that have an embargo placed on them will not be available to anyone until the embargo expires.

Translation Issues in Modern Chinese Literature: Viewpoint, Fate and Metaphor in Xia Shang's "The Finger-Guessing Game"

Jonathan Heinrichs , University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0867-7484

Access Type

Open Access Thesis

Document Type

Degree program, degree type.

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Year Degree Awarded

Month degree awarded.

The Finger-Guessing Game is a novel with many layers of themes, characterization, and metaphor, and conveying all of these varied aspects requires a detailed, careful approach to translation. With this thesis I aim to show that strictly adhering to a singular translation method, such as “word-for-word” or “sense-for-sense,” will produce unsatisfactory results at certain points within the novel. This is accomplished by an overview of several different unique aspects of the writing style of this novel, viewpoint, the theme of fate, and the use of idioms and metaphors. Following this will be an analysis of these aspects’ functions within the novel, and how to best translate them to retain their original meaning. In the end, I advocate for a case-by-case approach to the translation of this novel, wherein each unit of translation is considered individually, and the translator judges how to translate it in the best way possible. Only in this way can the meaning present at all levels in the text, from the themes down to the very language used, be translated in a manner which both reads naturally in English and still carries as much of the original meaning as possible.

https://doi.org/10.7275/15178098

First Advisor

Enhua Zhang

Second Advisor

Elena Suet-Ying Chiu

Recommended Citation

Heinrichs, Jonathan, "Translation Issues in Modern Chinese Literature: Viewpoint, Fate and Metaphor in Xia Shang's "The Finger-Guessing Game"" (2019). Masters Theses . 834. https://doi.org/10.7275/15178098 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/834

Since October 29, 2019

Included in

Chinese Studies Commons

Advanced Search

• Notify me via email or RSS
• Collections
• Disciplines

Author Corner

• Submission Guidelines
• Login for Faculty Authors
• Faculty Author Gallery
• Submit Thesis
• University Libraries
• UMass Amherst

This page is sponsored by the University Libraries.

© 2009 University of Massachusetts Amherst • Site Policies

Privacy Copyright

Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer.

To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to  upgrade your browser .

Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link.

• We're Hiring!
• Help Center

Han Shaogong and the Roots of Chinese Literature: Exploring the Fantastic and Regional Space in the Context of Modern History

This is an undergraduate thesis. It is mainly centered around an individual Chinese author, Han Shaogong (韩少功), but also deals with the late 80s school of "root-seeking literature" (寻根文学) with which Han is associated. Through close analysis of several short stories and one novel, this thesis investigates ways in which Han Shaogong builds upon previously established traditions of modern Chinese literature. Two themes are treated with particular interest: the use of genres of the Fantastic as well as of regional space in the fictional oeuvre. In both of these, readers may find the innovative and exciting ways in which Han brings forth previously marginalized narratives in his work. In addition to this, readers will discover that although Han's authorial gaze is ambitiously far-ranging, traversing centuries of Chinese history as well as crossing national borders of today's world, he is firmly founded in issues of contemporary China. In concluding, this thesis proposes that Han Shaogong raises fundamental questions about our ideas of nation and national literature, as well as the concept of cultural "roots."

Related Papers

Liang Luo 羅靚

Journal of chinese humanities

Yuanfei Wang

Editor’s note: Yu and Huters stress the integrated place of writing in Chinese civilization, explaining that the word for writing, wen, also means “culture, civilization, learning, pattern, refinement, and embellishment.” Examining the creation story of Pangu, the authors contrast traditional Chinese aesthetic values to Western aesthetics: Chinese aesthetics reflect a holistic and correlative worldview in which art describes concrete phenomenon, the writer exists in a network of relationships, and literature interprets and resides within the historic tradition.

Kwai Cheung Lo

This paper explores how Ha Jin’s English fictions provide us with a platform to rethink modern Chinese literature in the global context. His fictions on Chinese experiences call us to imagine a new notion of national literature. Ha Jin may not only subvert the national framework of literary studies and challenge the assumption that a literary text exists in stable or consistently identifiable form, but also urge us to rethink the coherence of modern Chinese literature in the broadest sense. The paper asks, through the case of Ha Jin, if a literary work written in another language be called “Chinese” or “national” in the age of globalization or flexible accumulation, and if literature can go beyond the ethnic-based model of identity. In modern tradition, literature always functions as the imaginary realm for the construction of the nation-state and narrates the shared experiences by a common language. But a more internationally involved China should be more receptive to the changing ...

xiangjun su

The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, edited by Victor H. Mair. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xx + 1342. $78 (hardbound). It is difficult enough to write the history of a national literature where this history is relatively short, as in Russian or American literature. The problem becomes exponentially larger with a national literature that spans three millennia, and, measured by sheer volume of text, might well be larger than all other national literatures combined. Yet writing a history of Chinese literature is not impossible. Over the last century, a number of efforts have been made in various languages: many in Chinese, a good number in Japanese, and about twenty in European languages, including a few in English (none of which are mentioned in the book under review). Writing yet another history of Chinese literature has to take this fact into account because each new such history is built-not always consciously-on previous efforts. To a greater extent than is sometimes acknowledged, our own limitations are inherited. In some particular instances we might be successful in transcending this heritage; but for the larger part, we remain confined to it. Each new history of literature inevitably joins the process of canonizing, anthologizing, and tradition-making that is, to no small extent, the very subject under study. Thus, the conventional version of Chinese literary history that matches particular genres with particular dynasties-Han fu ,i, Tang shi * , Song ci *I-J, Yuan quiP , Ming-Qing xiaoshuo KAV /J\TR-is the direct result of such history-cum-canonization. This scheme simultaneously mirrors and confirms the prevalent research interests in Chinese literature, perpetuating the limitations of past inquiry as expectations for future work. Once accepted in a scholarly community, the reproduction of the conventional version reigns as a matter of convenience for all. As the editor of The Columbia History of Chinese Literature (hereafter: CHCL), Victor H. Mair submits that his volume transcends such limitations. In his own characteristic words, offered in the "Prolegomenon" (pp. xi-xiii) and "Preface" (xv-xviii), he declares that his history includes "the latest findings of critical scholarship" (p. xii). It is a work where "the history of Chinese literature is seen through entirely new prisms that transcend both time and genre" (p. xii). It is a volume packed "with as much basic information as possible" (p.xv) and built upon "rigorous marshalling of evidence" (p. xvi). It is also a history that "touches on such matters as the fuzzy interface between ?Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 26 (2004)

Ying-kit Chan

In this volume, "Chinese Literature," you will meet great minds among the Chinese literates. Since reading is a form of pleasure that has been enjoyed for thousands of years, literature gives us the opportunity to meet great writers in Chinese history who have distilled their thoughts on life and society. This book will track the development of literature from the pre-Qin Dynasty era to the last monarchal regime, the Qing Dynasty.

Journal of Chinese Humanities

Kam Louie 雷金慶

Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures

This essay reviews zhang Longxi's A History of Chinese Literature. The book covers Chinese literature from its very beginning to modern times. It emphasizes texts' literary and aesthetic qualities when evaluating and historicizing literature. The book demonstrates the importance of canons in literary history, using Chinese tradition as an example. therefore, it also brings the Chinese tradition into the broader framework of world literature. reading Zhang's concise historical overview of Chinese literature, we can better understand the interplay between literary tradition and the individual talent. Zhang Longxi has skillfully combined the writing of a history of literature with literary criticism in this book. Zhang's successful attempt informs literary scholars of possible paradigms of compiling literary history in a post-cultural-studies theoretical context.

Géraldine Fiss , Melissa Chan

Scope of the Course: This course is an analysis of the changing literary and cultural patterns in modern and contemporary China. By engaging in close analyses of fiction, poetry, drama and literary thought from the late Qing period to the present, we will trace the changes that have occurred in China beginning in the late 19 th century, throughout the 20 th century and into the 21 st century. The course sheds light on various transforming phases in which the influx of Western thought merges with persisting classical Chinese aesthetics to mold the form and content of modern Chinese literature, especially in fiction and poetry. The class will cover the socialist process in China since 1949 by focusing on key cultural-political movements, leading to the emergence of dissident writers. Simultaneously, the class will impose a genuine emphasis on the continuity of diverging literary practices in Taiwan where modernism is conspicuously and actively attended. We will also explore the unique situation of Hong Kong literature

RELATED PAPERS

Dialogues et Paix

Moussa PARE

Reinaldo M Fleuri

The journal of experimental zoology

Giovanna Berruti

Theatre Topics

Margaret Werry

hjjkhjhg gghgt

IFAC Proceedings Volumes

Andrzej Banaszuk

Hisbah: Jurnal Bimbingan Konseling dan Dakwah Islam

Arina Rijki Aulia arinarijki.2023

Ramón Aravena

Pharmacognosy Journal

Juarez Henrique Ferreira

Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

Ellen Vayner

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Susanne Knøchel

Albert Yang

British Journal of Psychiatry

hugo critchley

Johan Karim

Fish &amp; Shellfish Immunology

sri nuryati

办弗林德斯大学毕业证 flinders毕业证研究生文凭证书GRE证书原版一模一样

Archivos Argentinos De Pediatria

Maria Bidondo

Cybernetics and Systems

Borahan Tümer

hanane reddad

The Proceedings of the National Symposium on Power and Energy Systems

Takemi Chikahisa

Stem Cell Research &amp; Therapy

Lisa Fortier

RELATED TOPICS

•   We're Hiring!
•   Help Center
• Find new research papers in:
• Health Sciences
• Earth Sciences
• Cognitive Science
• Mathematics
• Computer Science
• Academia ©2024

WashU Libraries

A guide to chinese studies.

• Electronic Journals
• Collectanea
• Find Theses
• Digital Humanities
• Newspapers/Media
• Web Resources
• Writing, Citation Tools
• Chinese Studies Collection Development Policy

Dissertations/Theses Full-text

• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global Full Text This link opens in a new window Access to 5 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1637 to the present day together with over 2.7 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Over 200,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year. Learn more about this database. more... less... Note: You cannot request full-text of dissertations or theses via ILLiad from within the database; you can only order them using your own credit card. To request via ILLiad, log in to ILLiad , click on Request a Thesis, and fill out the form.
• Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis (1996-) This link opens in a new window Full-text. Citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by Washington University and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database. View 24-page previews of dissertations and theses, and download the full text. Learn more about this database
• WashU Open Scholarship All Theses and Dissertations Beginning in 2009 (for degrees awarded in August, 2009) all theses and dissertations completed at Washington University were required to be submitted in electronic form.
• CNKI Theses and Dissertations Database
• National Library of China Dissertation Database 中国国家图书馆博士论文, Bibliographical information of 100,000 Chinese dissertations; first 24 pages of content maybe available.
• National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan 臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 National Central Library (NCL) provides free on-line services to general public on theses and dissertation of academic degrees, including citation information, abstracts and some full-text works.
• Hong Kong University Theses Online
• HKUST Electronic Theses The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's Electronic Theses contains full images of the doctoral dissertations and master's theses for most of our postgraduate students. Access to the database is available globally.

Dissertations/Theses Index

• Wanfang China Dissertations Database 万方数据, Databases of journals, dissertations, and conference proceedings. Access to abstracts only.
• International Chinese Studies Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts Database (Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library) 典藏國際漢學博士論文摘要資料庫 It has indexed and created abstracts for 9,000 dissertations from North America and Europe relating to Sinology.
• Dissertation Reviews: China
• Dissertation Reviews: Chinese Literature Since 2010, Dissertation Reviews has featured more than 1000 overviews of recently defended, unpublished doctoral dissertations in a wide variety of disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Center for Research Libraries: Dissertations Dissertation catalog can be browsed by countries and awarding institutions.
• << Previous: Collectanea
• Next: Databases >>
• Last Updated: May 29, 2024 3:06 PM
• URL: https://libguides.wustl.edu/chinese

M.A. in Chinese Literature and Culture

The M.A. program is designed to prepare students for a master's degree in Chinese literature and culture.

The M.A. program in Chinese literature and culture is designed for students with strong academic records and an interest in pursuing postgraduate research in Chinese literature, philosophy, or linguistics, but who have not yet acquired the language skills or disciplinary foundation necessary to enter a Ph.D. program. (Note: Students who wish to pursue advanced language training in preparation for post-graduate research in other fields of Chinese studies are referred to the interdisciplinary M.A. program in the Center for East Asian Studies .)

The candidate must finish third-year Chinese, and one course in advanced classical Chinese with a letter grade of 'B' or higher. Placement tests in modern and in classical Chinese will be given for incoming students during orientation week, Autumn Quarter. Those who fail to place into advanced level classical must take beginning classical Chinese. Qualified students may, upon consultation with the graduate advisor, be permitted to certify that they have attained the equivalent level of proficiency by passing examinations.

Students should always consult the most up-to-date version of the degree plan on the  Stanford Bulletin  as well as the  EALC Graduate Handbook . Each student should meet with their faculty advisor at least once per quarter to discuss the degree requirements and their progress.

• CHINLANG 103 - Third-Year Modern Chinese, Third Quarter (5 units)
• CHINLANG 103B - Third-Year Modern Chinese for Bilingual Speakers, Third Quarter (3 units)
• CHINA 208 - Advanced Classical Chinese: Philosophical Texts (3-5 units)
• CHINA 209 - Advanced Classical Chinese: Historical Narration (2-5 units)
• CHINA 210 - Advanced Classical Chinese: Literary Essays (2-5 units)
• EALC 201 - Proseminar in East Asian Humanities I: Skills and Methodologies (3 units)
• EALC 202 - Proseminar in East Asian Humanities II: Current Scholarship (1 unit)
• Four advisor-approved courses in Chinese literature, culture, or linguistics from among the offerings of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, not including courses taken to fulfill the language requirement.
• Two upper-division or graduate-level courses in fields such as Chinese anthropology, art history, history, philosophy, political science, religious studies, or another field, as approved by the student’s advisor.
• A master's thesis; enroll in  EALC 299 - Master's Thesis or Qualifying Paper (1-5 units).

First Year: Autumn Quarter

• EALC Emergency Contact Information
• EALC Information Consent Waiver Form
• For International Students:  if you are an international student whose native language is not English, you may be required to take the English Placement Test upon arrival. Students who accept an offer of admission and who Graduate Admissions requires to take the test will find it as a To-Do list item in their Axess account. For more information, please  visit the English Placement Test page on the Language Center website .
• Students may also attend the  New Graduate Student Orientation , hosted by the Graduate Life Office. Every year, the Graduate Life Office works with student volunteers to coordinate the New Graduate Student Orientation, or NGSO. In hopes to orient Stanford's new graduate students to the campus and ease their transitions here, it occurs the week prior to the start of classes. The programs are open to all incoming graduate students, both new and transfer students.  For International Students:  whether you arrive before orientation or during orientation, be sure to visit  Stanford's Bechtel International Center  (I-Center) website for full details of the Graduate International Student Orientation.

First Year: Spring Quarter

• At the beginning of the spring quarter, all graduate students must complete the Department's Annual Review Progress Report. Department faculty will use the information to evaluate student progress, and provide students with feedback.
• Towards the end of the spring quarter, students should at this point identify potential department faculty members who could serve as their thesis advisor(s). Once the faculty member has agreed to be their thesis advisor, students should work with the professor for the remainder of their time at Stanford to complete their thesis, while taking courses to complete the 45-unit minimum requirement and requirements specific to the M.A. in Chinese Literature and Culture.

Second Year: Autumn Quarter

• If the M.A. student has not done so already, they should find a faculty member who will be their thesis advisor, and begin working with the thesis advisor to complete the M.A. thesis, while taking courses to complete the 45-unit minimum requirement and requirements specific to the M.A. in Chinese Literature and Culture.

Second Year: Spring Quarter

• At the beginning of the spring quarter, all graduate students must complete the Department's Annual Review Progress Report. Department faculty will use the information to evaluate student progress, and provide students with feedback.
• Apply to graduate by the spring quarter deadline. For dates specific to your year, please check the  Stanford Academic Calendar .
• Submit the M.A. thesis by the spring quarter deadline. For dates specific to your year, and instruction on submitting your thesis, please  visit the Dissertation and Thesis Submission page on the Office of the Registrar's website .
• Complete the Department's Diploma Ceremony RSVP, which will be emailed to the graduate student mailing list.
• For more information on graduation and commencement, please  visit the Graduation page on the Office of the Registrar's website .
• Second-year students who will  not  be graduating in the spring, please make an appointment to talk to the Assistant Director of Student Services no later than two weeks  before  the Apply to Graduate deadline for spring quarter.

Note: As a general rule of thumb, students should check the Stanford Bulletin Archives to make sure that they complete requirements for the year that they were matriculated.

• Architecture and Design
• Asian and Pacific Studies
• Business and Economics
• Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
• Computer Sciences
• Cultural Studies
• Engineering
• General Interest
• Geosciences
• Industrial Chemistry
• Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
• Jewish Studies
• Library and Information Science, Book Studies
• Life Sciences
• Linguistics and Semiotics
• Literary Studies
• Materials Sciences
• Mathematics
• Social Sciences
• Sports and Recreation
• Theology and Religion
• Publish your article
• The role of authors
• Promoting your article
• Abstracting & indexing
• Publishing Ethics
• Why publish with De Gruyter
• How to publish with De Gruyter
• Our book series
• Our subject areas
• Your digital product at De Gruyter
• Contribute to our reference works
• Product information
• Tools & resources
• Product Information
• Promotional Materials
• Orders and Inquiries
• FAQ for Library Suppliers and Book Sellers
• Repository Policy
• Free access policy
• Open Access agreements
• Database portals
• For Authors
• Customer service
• People + Culture
• Journal Management
• How to join us
• Working at De Gruyter
• Mission & Vision
• De Gruyter Foundation
• De Gruyter Ebound
• Our Responsibility
• Partner publishers

Your purchase has been completed. Your documents are now available to view.

Chinese Approaches to Literature from Confucius to Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao

• Adele Austin Rickett
• X / Twitter

Please login or register with De Gruyter to order this product.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Copyright year: 1978
• Audience: Professional and scholarly;College/higher education;
• Main content: 284
• Keywords: Poetry ; Confucius ; Literature ; Chinese literature ; Chinese poetry ; Chinese philosophy ; Writing ; Confucianism ; Chinese classics ; Literary theory ; Classical Chinese ; Literary criticism ; Ancient China ; Han Yu ; Mencius (book) ; Zhuang Zhou ; Taoism ; Chinese culture ; Lin Shu ; Agriculture (Chinese mythology) ; Written Chinese ; Song dynasty ; Theory of Literature ; Novelist ; Lu Yu ; Hu Shih ; E. M. Forster ; Calligraphy ; Tang dynasty ; Oriental studies ; Mencius ; Emperor Gaozu of Han ; Li Sao ; Qu Yuan ; The Four Books ; Rectification of names ; Historical fiction ; Water Margin ; Fiction writing ; G. (novel) ; Allegory ; Lotus Sutra ; Qi ; The Art of Fiction (book) ; Ancient art ; Creative writing ; C. T. Hsia ; Yuan Mei ; Columbia University Press ; Political fiction ; Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove ; Buddhist texts ; Old Chinese ; The Dissertation ; D. C. Lau ; S. (Dorst novel) ; Yin and yang ; Social novel ; Futabatei Shimei ; Romanticism ; Superiority (short story) ; Political philosophy ; Chia-ying Yeh ; Prose ; William Empson ; National Taiwan University ; Tales from Shakespeare ; Scholar-official ; Han dynasty ; Wing-tsit Chan ; Classic of Poetry ; Archetype ; Preface (liturgy) ; A Book Of ; Writer ; Western literature ; M. H. Abrams ; On Writing ; Asian studies ; Writing style ; Analects ; Richard Crashaw ; James Legge ; Avatamsaka Sutra ; Arthur Waley ; Book of Odes (Bible) ; Regulated verse ; Buddhism ; Gladys Yang ; Lyrical Ballads ; T. S. Eliot ; Political satire ; Manuscript ; Anatomy of Criticism ; Theology ; Exposition (narrative) ; Mahayana ; Mutability (poem) ; Renunciation ; Changeless (novel)
• Published: March 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781400870868