Whither Class?: The Event of Literature in Revolutionary and Postrevolutionary China (Hardcover)

1.?Introduction.- Part I.?Quest for Revolutionary Modernity: Literature, Class, and the Challenges in the Making of a New People, 1910s-1940s.- 2.?"National Character," the Question of Class, and Lu Xun's Fiction.- 3.?Pen as Javelin: Zawen and Lu Xun's Language of Class.- 4.?From "Slumbering Masses" to "Revolutionary Masses:" Challenges in the Making of Revolutionary Literature.- Part II.?Shifting Class Implications: Literature, Return of the "Repressed," and the Question of "the People," late 1970s and early 1980s.- 5.?Debating Chinese Revolutionary Literature: From Cold War to the Age of Postrevolution.- 6.?The Event of "New Era Literature" and Shifting Class Implications.- 7.?Gender-Class Dialectics in the Rise of "New Era" Women's Writing and the Return of Ding Ling.- Part III.?Into the 21st Century: Literature, Tensions in the Language of Class, and the Rise of Postrevolutionary Working-Class Writing.- 8.?Debating Soft Burial: Tensions in the Language of Class in 21st-Century Postrevolutionary China.- 9.?Wen Cangmang: A 21st-Century Asking .- 10.?Migrant Workers' Literature, New Workers' Culture, and the Question of Class Consciousness in the Age of Postrevolution.