The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction: Inventing the "Lyrical Tradition"
Part I
1. "A History with Feeling"
2. The Three Epiphanies of Shen Congwen
3. Of Dream and Snake: He Qifang, Feng Zhi, and Born-Again Lyricism
4. A Lyricism of Betrayal: The Enigma of Hu Lancheng
Part II
5. The Lyrical in Epic Time: The Music and Poetry of Jiang Wenye
6. The Riddle of the Sphinx: Lin Fengmian and the Polemics of Realism in Modern Chinese Painting
7. The Spring That Brought Eternal Regret: Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Poetics of Screening China
8. And History Took a Calligraphic Turn: Tai Jingnong and the Art of Writing
Coda: Toward a Critical Lyricism
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Bibliography
Index