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The Melancholy of Modernity ──A Study on Early Hong Kong Literature (1907- 1941).

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Title/Author:	The Melancholy of Modernity ──A Study on Early Hong Kong Literature (1907- 1941)./
Author:	Li, Mei Ting.
Description:	1 online resource (212 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-03A.
Subject:	Asian history. -
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ISBN:	9798535514628

The Melancholy of Modernity ──A Study on Early Hong Kong Literature (1907- 1941).
Li, Mei Ting.

The Melancholy of Modernity ──A Study on Early Hong Kong Literature (1907- 1941). - 1 online resource (212 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2020.

Includes bibliographical references

Literary modernity, as a critical and principal research issue of modern Chinese literature, is as crucial an issue as in the research field of Hong Kong literature. However, due to the lack of documentary resources, the research about the literary modernity of Hong Kong literature is still underdeveloped. Fortunately, thanks to the effort of local scholars in the documentations and compilation of various anthologies of Hong Kong Literature, we can now sketch the contours of early Hong Kong literature more precisely. Based on previous researches, this thesis aims at proposing the concept of "Melancholic Modernity" as a structures of feeling towards the literary modernity and subjectivity formed in Hong Kong literature from 1907 to 1941. The meaning of "Melancholic Modernity" has three aspects: colonial melancholy, modern metropolitan melancholy, and the left-wing melancholy. The first chapter examines the writers in Zhong Wai Xiaoshou Lin（中外小說林）, which is a magazine of fiction moved from Guangzhou to Hong Kong in 1907, and argues that they tried to emphasize the strength of New Novel（新小說）and Drama（戲劇） by transforming Qing（情）to a medium of cultural and sentimental reform of Chinese in colonial Hong Kong under the purpose of anticolonialism. Furthermore, the literary revolution contributed to the changing of "Style" of early Hong Kong literature in both linguistic and literary genres reform. The second chapter addresses the question of how "new" and "old" literature in the supplement of Great Light Daily（大光報）was placed in proximity and bring together, arguing that the co-operation of the modern and the classical literature writers in early Hong Kong needs to be reviewed under the colonial context as a strategic renegotiation against the cultural co-optation implemented by the colonial government. Besides the colonial melancholic, chapter three analyses Dao Shang She（島上社）, a literary group formed by local young writers, showing their pursuing of subjectivity through the decadent style of modernism. This chapter suggested that the deliberate choice of the literary style exhibits their melancholic reaction to the capitalistic and metropolitan Hong Kong. The final chapter of this thesis discusses three local left-wing magazines: La Vague（激流）, Shidai Fengjing（時代風景）, Shidai Biyu（時代筆語） and Wenyi Qingnian（文藝青年） before the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, on how they presented their left-wing melancholia between national and colonial discourses under the wartime atmosphere.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798535514628Subjects--Topical Terms:

810327
Asian history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Hong Kong literatureIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

The Melancholy of Modernity ──A Study on Early Hong Kong Literature (1907- 1941).
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