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