Chapter 7. Impossible Representations: Visions of China and the West in Flower in a Sea of Retribution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. Late Qing Ideas
6. Chapter 1. China as Origin 23
7. Chapter 2. Appropriations: Another Look at Yan Fu and Western Ideas 43
8. Chapter 3. New Ways of Writing 74
9. Chapter 4. New Theories of the Novel 100
10. PART II. Late Qing Novels
11. Chapter 5. Wu Jianren: Engaging the World 123
12. Chapter 6. Melding East and West: Wu Jianren’s New Story of the Stone 151
13. Chapter 7. Impossible Representations: Visions of China and the West in Flower in a Sea of Retribution 173
14. PART III. The New Republic
15. Chapter 8. The Contest over Universal Values 203
16. Chapter 9. Swimming against the Tide: The Shanghai of Zhu Shouju 229
17. Chapter 10. Lu Xun and the Crisis of Figuration 252
18. Afterword 275
19. Notes 279
20. Glossary 325
21. Works Cited 335
22. Index 363