Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. I Country and City
7. 1 Visitation of the Past in Han Shaogong's Post-1985 Fiction 19
8. 2 Past, Present, and Future in Mo Yan's Fiction of the 1980s 43
9. 3 Shen Congwen's Legacy in Chinese Literature of the 1980s 71
10. 4 Imaginary Nostalgia: Shen Congwen, Song Zelai, Mo Yan, and Li Yongping 107
11. 5 Urban Exoticism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature 133
12. II Subjectivity and Gender
13. 6 Text, Intertext, and the Representation of the Writing Self in Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, and Wang Meng 167
14. 7 Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature 194
15. 8 living in Sin: From May Fourth via the Antirightist Movement to the Present 221
16. III Narrative Voice and Cinematic Vision
17. 9 Lu Xun's Facetious Muse: The Creative Imperative in Modern Chinese Fiction 249
18. 10 lives in Profile: On the Authorial Voice in Modern and Contemporary Chinese literature 269
19. 11 Melodramatic Representation and the "May Fourth" Tradition of Chinese Cinema 295
20. 12 Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the Children 327
21. Afterword: Reflections on Change and Continuity in Modern Chinese Fiction 361
22. Notes 385
23. Contributors 433