Introduction: The Limits of Wen (?)
Part I: Structure
1.1 Kirk Denton-Lu Xun, Returning Home, and May Fourth
Modernity
1.2 Ping-hui Liao-Travels in Modern China: From Zhang Taiyan to Gao
Xingjian
1.3 XIA Xiaohong-The Construction of the Modern Chinese Concept of
Xiju ("drama")
1.4 Nathaniel Isaacson-Orientalism, Scientific Practice and Popular
Culture in Late Qing China
1.5 CHEN Pingyuan-The Story of Literary History
1.6 Andrea Bachner-The Secrets of Language: Chen Li's Sinographic
Anagrams
1.7 Michael Hill-On Not Knowing: Translation, Knowledge Work, and
Modern Literature
1.8 MEI Chia-ling-Voice and the Quest for Modernity in Chinese
Literature
1.9 Shelby Chan, Gilbert Fong-Hongkong-Speak: Cantonese and Rupert
Chan's Translated Theater
1.10 Xiaomei Chen-Singing "The Internationale": From the "Red Silk
Road" to the Red Classics
1.11 John Crespi-Beyond Satire: The Pictorial Imagination of Zhang
Guangyu's 1945 Journey to the West in Cartoons
1.12 Laikwan Pang-The Allegory of Time and Space: Tian Han's
Historical Dramas in the Great Leap Forward Period
1.13 YAN Lianke-An Examination of China's Censorship System
1.14 Jie Li-"Are our drawers empty?": Nie Gannu's Dossier
Literature
1.15 Junning Fu-A Dream of Returning to 1997: The Phenomenology of
Chinese Web Fantasy Literature
Part II: Taxonomy
2.1 David Porter-Early Modern: Comparative Approaches to Literary
Early Modernity
2.2 Xiaojue Wang-Borders and Borderlands Narratives in Cold War
China
2.3 Xiaofei Tian-Hao Ran and the Cultural Revolution
2.4 Matthew Fraleigh-At the Borders of Chinese Literature: Poetic
Exchange in the Nineteenth-Century Sinosphere
2.5 Kwok Kou Leonard Chan-Sense of Place and Urban Images: Reading
Hong Kong in Hong Kong Poetry
2.6 Yvonne Sung-sheng Chang-Wartime Taiwan: Epitome of an East
Asian Modality of the Modern Literary Institution?
2.7 CHANG Cheng and LIAO Yun-chang- Song of Exile, Four-Way Voice:
The Blood-and-Sweat Writings of Southeast Asian Migrants in
Taiwan
2.8 Shuang Shen-Where the "Trans-Pacific" meets Chinese
Literature
2.9 Belinda Kong-Xiaolu Guo and the Contemporary Chinese Anglophone
Novel
2.10 Mark Bender-Poet of the Late Summer Corn: Aku Wuwu and
Contemporary Yi Poetry
2.11 JI Jin-Literary Translation and Modern Chinese Literature
2.12 Chris Hamm-Genre in Modern Chinese Fiction: Righteous Heroes
of Modern Times
2.13 Mingwei Song-Representations of the Invisible: Chinese Science
Fiction in the Twenty-First Century
2.14 Rey Chow-Leung Ping-kwan: Shuqing and Reveries of Space
2.15 Nick Admussen-Genre Occludes the Creation of Genre: Bing Xin,
Tagore, and Prose Poetry
Part III: Methodology
3.1 David Der-wei Wang-Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times:
Three Encounters
3.2 Jianmei Liu-Gao Xingjian: The Triumph of the Modern
Zhuangzi
3.3 Haun Saussy and GE Zhaoguang-Historiography in the Chinese
Twentieth Century
3.4 Yingjin Zhang-Structure and Rupture in Literary History and
Historiography
3.5 Viren Murthy-Reading Lu Xun's Early Essays in Relation to
Marxism
3.6 WANG Hui-Intuition, Repetition, and Revolution: Six Moments in
the Life of Ah Q
3.7 Chaoyang Liao-From Shame to Freedom: Undoing Spectral Identity
in Li Ang's Seeing Ghosts
3.8 Ban Wang-Passion and Politics in Revolution: A Psychoanalytical
Reading of Ding Ling
3.9 Tze-lan Sang-Eileen Chang and the Genius Art of Failure
3.10 Eng Kiong (EK) Tan-From Exile to Queer Homecoming: Chen Xue's
A Wife's Diary
3.11 Karen Thornber-Care, Vulnerability, Resilience: Ecologies of
HIV/AIDS in Chinese Literature
3.12 Brian Bernards-Malaysia as Method: Xiao Hei and
Ethno-Linguistic Literary Taxonomy
3.13 Chien-hsin Tsai-A Distant Shore: Migration, Intextuation, and
Postloyalism in Chia Joo Ming's "Ambon Vacation"
3.14 Carlos Rojas-On Time: Anticipatory Nostalgia in Dung
Kai-Cheung's Fiction
Conclusion: Chinese Literatures in Conjunction
Index
Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender,
Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at
Duke University.
Andrea Bachner is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at
Cornell University.
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