COMPANION TO MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE (Paperback)

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv 1 General Introduction 1 Yingjin Zhang Part I History and Geography 39 2 Literary Modernity in Perspective 41 Zhang Longxi 3 Late Qing Literature, 1890s-1910s 54 Hu Ying 4 War, Revolution, and Urban Transformations: Chinese Literature of the Republican Era, 1920s-1940s 67 Nicole Huang 5 Socialist Literature Driven by Radical Modernity, 1950-1980 81 Chen Xiaoming (translated by Qin Liyan) 6 Thirty Years of New Era Literature: From Elitization to De-Elitization 98 Tao Dongfeng (translated by Angie Chau) 7 Building a Modern Institution of Literature: The Case of Taiwan 116 Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 8 Sinophone Literature 134 Ping-hui Liao Part II Genres and Types 149 9 Modern Poetry in Chinese: Challenges and Contingencies 151 Michelle Yeh 10 Modern Chinese Theater Study and its Century-Long History 167 Xiaomei Chen 11 Literariness (Wen) and Character (Zhi): From Baihua to Yuluti and Dazhongyu 181 Qian Suoqiao 12 Fiction in Modern China: Modernity through Storytelling 195 Yiyan Wang 13 Modern China's Translated Literature 214 Zha Mingjian 14 Writing Chinese Feminism(s) 228 Amy Dooling 15 The World of Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction: From Shanghai Express to Rivers and Lakes of Knights-Errant 244 Yi Zheng 16 Ethnic Minority Literature 261 Mark Bender Part III Cultures and Media 277 17 Use in Uselessness: How Western Aesthetics Made Chinese Literature More Political 279 Ban Wang 18 The Linguistic Turns and Literary Fields in Twentieth-Century China 295 Jianhua Chen 19 The Significance of the Northeastern Writers in Exile, 1931-1945 312 Haili Kong 20 Writing Cities 326 Weijie Song 21 Divided Unities of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture: The Modern Girl, Woodcuts, and Contemporary Painter-Poets 343 Paul Manfredi 22 All the Literature That's Fit to Print: A Print Culture Perspective on Modern Chinese Literature 360 Nicolai Volland 23 The Proliferating Genre: Web-Based Time-Travel Fiction and the New Media in Contemporary China 379 Jin Feng Part IV Issues and Debates 395 24 The Persistence of Form: Nation, Literary Movement, and the Fiction of Ng Kim Chew 397 Carlos Rojas 25 The Modern Girl in Modern Chinese Literature 411 Tze?]lan D. Sang 26 Body as Phenomenon: A Brief Survey of Secondary Literature of the Body in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 424 Ari Larissa Heinrich 27 The Post-Maoist Politics of Memory 434 Yomi Braester 28 Writing Historical Traumas in the Everyday 452 Lingchei Letty Chen 29 A Brief Overview of Chinese-Language Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 465 Chen Sihe (translated by Alvin Ka Hin Wong) 30 Toward a Typology of Literary Modernity in China: A Survey of English Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 483 Yingjin Zhang Bibliography 501 Glossary 503 Index 548