Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture : Cannibalizations of the Canon (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Disease of Canonicity Carlos Rojas Part I: Producing Popularity 1. Perverse Poems and Suspicious Salons: The Friday School in Modern Chinese LiteratureMichel Hockx 2. The Formation of the "Professional Author" as a Figure in Early Twentieth Century Vernacular FictionAlexander Des Forges 3. Serial Sightings: News, Novelties, and Zhang Henshui's An Unofficial History of the Old CapitalEileen Cheng-yin Chow 4.On the Literary Consecration of Jin Yong's FictionJohn Christopher Hamm Part II: Canonical Reflections 5.An Archaeology of Repressed Popularity: Zhou Shoujuan, Mao Dun, and Their 1920s Literary PolemicsJianhua Chen 6. A Tale of Two Cities: Romance, Revenge, and Nostalgia in Two Fin-de-Siecle Novels by Ye Zhaoyan and Zhang BeihaiMichael Berry 7. From Romancing the State to Romancing the Store: Further Elaborations on Some Motifs in Contemporary Taiwan LiteraturePing-hui Liao Part III: Nostalgia and Amnesia 8. ? Rereading the Red Classics: "Bidding Farewell to Revolution" and Red NostalgiaDAI Jinhua9. The Reproduction of a Popular Hero: Tsui Hark’s Wong Fei-hongWeijie Song 10.Memory, Photographic Seduction and Allegorical Correspondence: Eileen Chang’s Mutual ReflectionsXiaojue Wang Part IV: Gender and Desire 11. Popular Literature and National Representation: The Gender and Genre Politics of BegoniaDavid Der-wei Wang 12. Asking Jin Yong, 'What is sentiment?' ? Gifts, Love Letters, and Material EvidenceHsiao-hung Chang 13. Authorial Afterlives and Apocrypha in 1990s Chinese Fiction Carlos Rojas