Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I
7. 1 Trauma and Passion in The Sea of Regret: The Ambiguous Beginnings of Modern Chinese Literature 11
8. 2 Lu Xun’s ‘‘Diary of a Madman’’ and a Chinese Modernism 49
9. Excursion I: Beyond Homesickness: An Intimate Reading of Lu Xun’s ‘‘My Native Land’’ 74
10. 3 Shanghai, Spring 1930: Engendering the Revolutionary Body 97
11. 4 The Last Tubercular in Modern Chinese Literature: On Ba Jin’s Cold Nights 131
12. PART II
13. 5 The Lyrical Age and Its Discontents: On the Staging of Socialist New China in The Young Generation 163
14. 6 Residual Modernism: Narratives of the Self in the 1980s 196
15. 7 The Mirror of History and History as Spectacle: Reflections on Xiao Ye and Su Tong 225
16. 8 In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijing and the Politics of Vision 245
17. 9 New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Late-Twentieth-Century China 273
18. Excursion II: Decorating Culture: Notes on Interior Design, Interiority, and Interiorization 295
19. 10 Melancholy Against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi’s Tales of Sorrow 316
20. Afterword 341
21. Glossary 349
22. Selected Bibliography 357
23. Index 369