A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 General Introduction -- Modern Chinese Literature: Reenvisioning the Boundaries -- The Institution of Literary Scholarship: Polemics and Paradigms -- Part I: History and Geography -- Part II: Genres and Types -- Part III: Cultures and Media -- Part IV: Issues and Debates -- Conclusion: Tracking Scholarly Trajectories -- Notes -- References -- Part I History and Geography -- Chapter 2 Literary Modernity in Perspective -- References -- Chapter 3 Late Qing Literature, 1890s-1910s -- Revolution in Literature -- The Prose Essay: Debate over the Proper Literary Language -- Poetry: The Most Tenacious Literary Form -- Fiction: The Politicization of Literature -- References -- Chapter 4 War, Revolution, and Urban Transformations: Chinese Literature of the Republican Era, 1920s-1940s -- Contestation in Genres and Styles -- Writing War, Romancing Revolution -- Narratives of Urban Transformations -- Postwar Departures -- References -- Chapter 5 Socialist Literature Driven by Radical Modernity, 1950-1980 -- The Direction of Revolutionary Literature and the Construction of the Subject -- The Institutionalization of Literature and Cultural Leadership -- Revolution and Pleasure: The Literary Picture of Class Struggles in the Countryside -- Grand Construction: The Unfolding of the Narrative of Revolutionary History -- Personal Sentiments outside History -- Individuals in History: Making Revolutionary History Concrete and Legendary -- Superego and the Small Self: The Lyrical Subject of the Republic -- The Extreme of Historicization: Literature during the Cultural Revolution -- Display of Scars: Historical Reflections after the Cultural Revolution -- Misty Poetry: From Being Underground to Becoming a Bugle of the New Era.

Idealism in Reconstructing the Subject: Reform Literature and Literature of Sent‐Down Youths -- References -- Chapter 6 Thirty Years of New Era Literature: From Elitization to De-Elitization -- The Elitization of Literature, 1970s-1980s -- The Two Stages of Elitization: Reform Literature and Pure Literature -- The De-Elitization of Literature, 1990 to the Present -- Elite Literature during the De-elitization Era -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Building a Modern Institution of Literature: The Case of Taiwan -- Trajectories of Vernacular Movements in Colonial Taiwan -- Comparative Perspectives: Meiji Japan, Republican China, and post-1949 Taiwan -- Conclusion: Understanding Modern Literature in Taiwan as a Locally Based Institution -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Sinophone Literature -- References -- Part II Genres and Types -- Chapter 9 Modern Poetry in Chinese: Challenges and Contingencies -- Marginalization of Poetry -- Poetry in Search of Readers -- A Survey of Modern Chinese Poetry -- References -- Chapter 10 Modern Chinese Theater Study and its Century-Long History -- Three Founding Fathers in Spoken Drama and in Opera Reform -- Irreconcilable Dramatic Conflicts: "Class Struggle" or Greek Theater Recreated? -- References -- Chapter 11 Literariness (Wen) and Character (Zhi): From Baihua to Yuluti and Dazhongyu -- The Triumph of the Vernacular Baihua -- Zhou Zuoren's Meiwen and Lu Xun's Zawen -- Lin Yutang, Yuluti, and Dazhongyu -- Contemporary Prose: Wen (Literariness) and Zhi (Character) -- Note -- References -- Chapter 12 Fiction in Modern China: Modernity through Storytelling -- Fiction as a Beacon of Social Modernity -- Storytelling as Social Commentary: Fiction in the 1900s -- Enlightenment versus Entertainment: Fiction in the 1910s -- Short Stories in New Literature: Fiction in the 1920s.

The Maturation of the Novel: Fiction in the 1930s -- The Wars and Warring Ideologies: Fiction in the 1940s -- Socialist Realism and the Red Classics: Fiction in the 1950s and Beyond -- The Cultural Revolution: Fiction as Political Victim in the 1960s-1970s -- Renaissance and Experimentation: Fiction in the 1980s -- Commercialization and Diversification in Storytelling: Fiction in the 1990s -- The Past in the Present: Fiction in the Twenty-First Century -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 13 Modern China's Translated Literature -- Translated Literature in Late Qing and Early Republican Periods -- Translated Literature from the May Fourth Period to the 1940s -- Translated Literature from the 1950s to the 1970s -- Translated Literature from the 1980s to the 1990s -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14 Writing Chinese Feminism(s) -- Back to the Future: Reading Utopian Imaginaries in Late Qing Feminist Fiction -- Back to History: Textual Legacies of Late Qing Feminists -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15 The World of Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction: From Shanghai Express to Rivers and Lakes of Knights-Errant -- Of Jianghu and Minjian in Popular Fiction -- From Old Beijing to Shanghai Express: Modern Love in Zhang Henshui's Butterfly Romances -- Across Beautiful, Yet Perilous Mountains and Waters -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 Ethnic Minority Literature -- Introduction -- Ethnicity and Ethnic Writers -- Oral Literature -- Contemporary Ethnic Minority Writing -- Uygur and Hui Historical Novels -- Mongol Grasslands Literature -- Ethnic Korean Literature -- Tibetan Literature and Magical Realism -- Cosmographic Literature of the Southwest -- Critical Works and the Generation of Change -- References -- Part III Cultures and Media -- Chapter 17 Use in Uselessness: How Western Aesthetics Made Chinese Literature More Political.

Aesthetic Discourse and Literature -- Aesthetic Search by Way of Morality: Wang Guowei and Huang Moxi -- The Politics of Aesthetics in Lu Xun -- References -- Chapter 18 The Linguistic Turns and Literary Fields in Twentieth-Century China -- Introduction -- Language Reform and the National Essence -- The Linguistic Turn and Literary Debates -- Recent Reactions against the Linguistic Turn -- Poetic Language across Transnational Borders -- Epilogue: Hanyu in Global Flux -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 19 The Significance of the Northeastern Writers in Exile, 1931-1945 -- The Emergence of Northeastern Writers, 1928-1935 -- The Peak Time for Northeastern Writers, 1936-1937 -- Ideological Clash and Narcissistic Nostalgia, 1938-1945 -- The Significance of Northeastern Writers -- References -- Chapter 20 Writing Cities -- Urban Literature in Late Qing and Republican China -- Mapping Mainland Cities after 1949 -- Imagining Taipei, Hong Kong, and Beyond -- References -- Chapter 21 Divided Unities of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture: The Modern Girl, Woodcuts, and Contemporary Painter-Poets -- The Modern Girl -- The Woodcut -- Poetry and Visual Art: New Landscapes -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 22 All the Literature That's Fit to Print: A Print Culture Perspective on Modern Chinese Literature -- Print Culture and the Historiography of Modern Chinese Literature -- New Media and New Institutions -- Print Culture and the Birth of Modern Chinese Literature, 1870-1945 -- Print Culture in Socialist and Postsocialist China -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 23 The Proliferating Genre: Web-Based Time-Travel Fiction and the New Media in Contemporary China -- Genealogy -- New Media, New Platform -- Plots, Tropes, and Devices -- New Writing and Reading Practices -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part IV Issues and Debates.

Chapter 24 The Persistence of Form: Nation, Literary Movement, and the Fiction of Ng Kim Chew -- Desire -- Exile -- Metatext -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 25 The Modern Girl in Modern Chinese Literature -- References -- Chapter 26 Body as Phenomenon: A Brief Survey of Secondary Literature of the Body in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture -- References -- Chapter 27 The Post-Maoist Politics of Memory -- The Figure of History in Studies of Modern Chinese Literature -- The Ethics of Commemoration -- Serial Amnesia -- The Golden Age of Amnesia -- Literary and Cinematic Memory -- The Thrills of Amnesia -- Post-Revolutionary Memory -- Post-Memory -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 28 Writing Historical Traumas in the Everyday -- References -- Chapter 29 A Brief Overview of Chinese-Language Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature -- The Development of Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature in China -- Author Studies in the Perspective of "Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature" -- Rewriting Literary History: Advocacy and Practice -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 30 Toward a Typology of Literary Modernity in China: A Survey of English Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature -- Introduction: Five Phases of Modernity in China -- May Fourth Modernity: Enlightenment and Its Discontents -- Late Qing Modernities: Decadence as De-cadence -- Urban Modernities: Cosmopolitanism and Hybridity -- Socialist Modernity: Revolution as Ecstasy -- Postsocialist Modernities: Of Intellectualism and Consumerism -- Conclusion: Modernity vis-à-vis Postmodernism and Postsocialism -- Notes -- References -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- EULA.

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