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This book intends to trace the revival of traditional literary
works since the 1980s in China as it is revealed on the revitalized
College Entrance Examination (CEE). In order to show how these
changes reflect China's altering ideology after the fall of
Communism, selections from the CEE's literary portion will be
examined. Taking advantage of the resurrection of the powerful CEE,
test creators have composed the literary portion as an education
tool to shape public opinion in the post-Communist era. Literature
in China have never been an independent art but had shared the
responsibility for transmitting China's intellectual and ethical
traditions. The introduction of Communism to China silenced these
traditions and made literature the servant of political ideology.
This book traces the chronological process of restoring modern
vernacular literature from the pre-Communist era and the ways in
which traditional literature is being used for modern purposes. For
many Chinese intellectuals, the gradual withdrawal of literature
for serving political causes and the reinstatement of classical
literature and early vernacular works to on the CEE bring to light
the recovery of the aesthetic literary tradition and a return to
normalcy. When students take the CEE, they not only mentally
scrutinize literature that they first read during their secondary
education, but also experience an assertive presentation of current
Chinese cultural values and outlooks on life. This study argues
that in the post-1980s CEE literary selections, students experience
a variety of texts that summon up China's pre-Communist literary
tradition in order to serve as an intellectual guiding light for
future social development. For those interested in comparative
higher education, a particular area of interest may be the book's
singular consideration of the science and technology passages in
connection with the restructuring of higher education in China as a
remedy of China's cultural tradition.
This book traces the entrance of Western stage drama into China and
the initial reception it received from Chinese intellectuals. Form
the introduction of Western literature and dramatic concepts to
China in the early twentieth century to the Chinese national
theatre movement and renovation of Beijing opera, specific and
social cultural conditions ushered the literature created in that
environment. The central contention of this book is that the
evolution of modern literary stage drama was an important aspect of
the Chinese intellectual movement, transforming stage shows into
messengers of social change. When two cultures collide, it can
produce significant literary and cultural change. While there have
been productive studies comparing the characteristics of Eastern
and Western theatre, there has not yet been a study examining the
social environments that brought these characteristics about.
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