Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Decapitation

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword 1
4. Introduction 8
5. PART ONE Problematics of Subjectivity and Modernity
6. Subjectivity, Marxism, and Cultural Theory in China 23
7. The Subjectivity of Literature Revisited 56
8. Split China, or, The Historical/Imaginary: Toward a Theory of the Displacement of Subjectivity at the Margins of Modernity 70
9. Narratives of Modern Selfhood: First-Person Fiction in May Fourth Literature 102
10. Female Subjectivity and Gender Relations: The Early Stories of Lu Yin and Bing Xin 124
11. PART TWO Representation, Realism, and the Question of History
12. Ideologies of Realism in Modern China: The Hard Imperatives of Imported Theory 147
13. Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Decapitation 174
14. Red Sorghum: Limits of Transgression 188
15. PART THREE Cultural Critique and Ideology
16. Narrative, Ideology, Subjectivity: Defining a Subversive Discourse in Chinese Reportage 211
17. Anxiety of Portraiture: Quest for/Questioning Ancestral Icons in Post-Mao China 243
18. Resisting Writing 273
19. The Function of New Theory: What Does It Mean to Talk about Postmodernism in China? 278
20. Postscript 301
21. Index 305
22. Contributors 315