RCCLLC

In Search of the “Lyrical Tradition”: The Conception of Lyricism in Modern Studies of Chinese Literature

The project aims at giving a pioneering insight into Chinese lyrical tradition through reviewing the to-date literature and tracking back the prototype and ongoing development of the tradition. The focus is on 1) what has been dis/agreed regarding the tradition, and 2) what, why, and how the preceding literary conception have influenced the conceptions of the three founders of the Chinese lyrical tradition. This to 1) reveal the process of the gradual development of the Chinese lyrical tradition, 2) propose a non-traditional way through which people can study Chinese literature, and 3) answer some controversial questions.

Source of Funding: HKIEd- Start-up Research Grant

Chief Investigator: Prof CHAN, Kwok Kou Leonard [FHM, RCCLLC]

Anthologizing Heterophonies: A Critical Study of Anthologies of Tang Poetry in the Late Ming Period

The project aims at developing an innovative and critical approach to the secular poetics in the late Ming period through a study of the pastiche anthologies of Tang poetry of the time. The focus is on pastiche anthologies 1) which contain different and/or contradictory opinions, and 2) which assemble commentaries of different critics and/or rival schools into single compilations. This is to reveal 1) how pastiche anthologies combine and complicate unrelated or contradictory opinions, 2) how literary history and the canon were imparted from the upper to the lower class, and 3) how pastiches anthologies cultivate the secularized aesthetics.

Source of Funding: RGC General Research Fund

Chief Investigator: Prof CHAN, Kwok Kou Leonard [FHM, RCCLLC]