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On Memory And Trauma: From The 228 Incident To The White Terror
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Kang-I Sun Chang
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments xxiii
- Introduction. Worlding Literary China 1
- The Multiple Beginnings Of Modern Chinese “Literature” 29
- Dutch Plays, Chinese Novels, And Images Of An Open World 35
- The Revival of Letters in Nineteenth-Century China 46
- Legacies in clash: anticipatory modernity versus imaginary nostalgia 51
- Robert morrison’s chinese literature and translated modernity 56
- Gongyang imaginary and looking to the confucian past for reform 62
- Flowers in the mirror and chinese women: “at home in the world” 69
- Utter disillusion and acts of repentance in late classical poetry 74
- In search of a chinese utopia: the taiping rebellion as a literary event 79
- My life in china and america and transpacific translations 85
- Two chinese poets are homeless at home 91
- Foreign devils, chinese sorcerers, and the politics of literary anachronism 97
- Women writers in early modern china 103
- Wang tao lands in hong kong 108
- Media, literature, and early chinese modernity 114
- The politics of translation and the romanization of chinese into a world language 119
- In lithographic journals, text and image flourish on the same page 125
- Lives of shanghai flowers, dialect fiction, and the genesis of vernacular modernity 133
- The “new novel” before the rise of the new novel 139
- Qiu feng jia and the poetics of tears 144
- Language reform and its discontents 151
- Oracle bones, that dangerous supplement . . . 156
- Liang qichao’s suspended translation and the future of chinese new fiction 161
- Fallen leaves, grieving cicadas, and poetic mourning after the boxer rebellion 167
- Eliza crosses the ice—and an ocean—and uncle tom’s cabin arrives in china 173
- Sherlock holmes comes to china 178
- Imagining Modern Utopia By Rethinking Ancient Historiography 184
- Wen And The “First History(-Ies) Of Chinese Literature” 190
- Münchhausen Travels To China Early In The Summer Of 1905, The Young Writer 196
- Zhang Taiyan And The Revolutionary Politics Of Literary Restoration 202
- Global Theatrical Spectacle In Tokyo And Shanghai 208
- The Death Of China’S First Feminist 214
- The Death Of China’S First Feminist 214
- From Mara To Nobel 219
- A Classical Poetry Society Through Revolutionary Times 225
- Revolution And Love 231
- The Book Of Datong As A Novel Of Utopia 237
- Hu Shi And His Experiments 242
- Inventing Youth In Modern China 248
- Zhou Yucai Writes “A Madman’S Diary” Under The Pen Name Lu Xun 254
- Modern Monkhood 260
- The Big Misnomer: “May Fourth Literature” 265
- Clinical Diagnosis For Taiwan 271
- Turning Babbitt Into Bai Bide 277
- Xiang Kairan’S Monkey 282
- New Culture And The Pedagogy Of Writing 289
- Xu Zhimo And Chinese Romanticism 295
- Enchantment With The Voice 301
- Lu Xun And Tombstones 306
- Mei Lanfang, The Denishawn Dancers, And World Theater 311
- “This Spirit Of Independence And Freedom Of Thought . . . Will Last For Eternity With Heaven And Earth” 319
- The Legend Of A Modern Woman Writer Of Classical Verse 325
- Ba Jin Begins To Write Anarchist Novels 331
- Revolution And Rhine Wine 337
- Genealogies Of Romantic Disease 343
- Gender, Commercialism, And The Literary Market 348
- The Author As Celebrity 354
- Practical Criticism In China 360
- Invitation To A Beheading 365
- The Chinese League Of Left-Wing Writers, 1930–1936 371
- Hei Ying’S “Pagan Love Song” 376
- Roots Of Peace And War, Beauty And Decay, Are Sought In China’S Good Earth 382
- Recollections Of Women Soldiers On The Long March 388
- On Language, Literature, And The Silent Screen 394
- The Execution Of Qu Qiubai 400
- The Child And The Future Of China In The Legend Of Sanmao 406
- Crossing The River And Ding County Experimental Theater 414
- One Day In China 420
- Resonances Of A Visual Image In The Early Twentieth Century 426
- Lu Xun And The Afterlife Of Texts 432
- Cao Yu And His Drama 437
- A Chinese Poet’S Wartime Dream 443
- William Empson, W. H. Auden, And Modernist Poetry In Wartime China 449
- The Lost Novel Of The Nanjing Massacre 456
- The Poetics And Politics Of Neo-Sensationism 462
- Between Chineseness And Modernity: The Film Art Of Fei Mu 467
- Chinese Revolution And Western Literature 473
- Eileen Chang In Hong Kong 478
- In War She Writes 484
- Taiwan’S Genius Lü Heruo 489
- The Cultural And Political Significance Of Mao Zedong’S Talks At The Yan’An Forum On Literature And Art 495
- The Genesis Of Peasant Revolutionary Literature 500
- The North Has Mei Niang 506
- Ideologies Of Sound In Chinese Modernist Poetry 512
- The Enigma Of Yu Dafu And Nanyang Literature 517
- On Literature And Collaboration 522
- On Memory And Trauma: From The 228 Incident To The White Terror 528
- The Socratic Tradition In Modern China 533
- The Life Of A Chinese Literature Textbook 539
- Shen Congwen’S Journey: From Asylum To Museum 544
- A New Time Consciousness: The Great Leap Forward 550
- The Genesis Of Literary History In New China 556
- Transnational Socialist Literature In China 562
- A Provocation To Literary History 568
- Salvaging Chinese Script And Designing The Mingkwai Typewriter 573
- Lao She And America 580
- The Emergence Of Regional Opera On The National Stage 585
- Lu Ling, Hu Feng, And Literary Persecution 590
- Hong Kong Modernism And I 597
- Zhou Shoujuan’S Romance À La Mandarin Ducks And Butterflies 602
- Orphans Of Asia 607
- Sino-Muslims And China’S Latin New Script: A Reunion Between Diaspora And Nationalism 613
- A Monumental Model For Future Perfect Theater 619
- Mao Zedong Publishes Nineteen Poems And Launches The New Folk Song Movement 625
- On The Song Of Youth And Literary Bowdlerization 630
- Hunger And The Chinese Malaysian Leftist Narrative 635
- Three Ironic Moments In My Mother Ru Zhijuan’S Literary Career 640
- The Legacies Of Jaroslav Průšek And C. T. Hsia 644
- Fu Lei And Fou Ts’Ong: Cultural Cosmopolitanism And Its Price 650
- The “Red Pageant” And China’S First Atomic Bomb 656
- Red Prison Files 663
- Modernism Versus Nativism In 1960S Taiwan 669
- The Specter Of Liu Shaoqi 674
- The Red Lantern: Model Plays And Model Revolutionaries 680
- Jin Yong Publishes The Smiling, Proud Wanderer In Ming Pao 685
- The Angel Island Poems: Chinese Verse In The Modern Diaspora 691
- In Search Of Qian Zhongshu 697
- A Subtle Encounter: Tête-Bêche And In The Mood For Love 703
- The Mysterious Death Of Bruce Lee, Chinese Nationalism, And Cinematic Legacy 707
- Yang Mu Negotiates Between Classicism And Modernism 712
- Poems From Underground 718
- A Modern Taiwanese Innocents Abroad 725
- Confessions Of A State Writer: The Novelist Hao Ran Offers A Self-Criticism 731
- Chen Yingzhen On The White Terror In Taiwan 737
- Liu Binyan And The Price Of Relevance 742
- A Tale Of Two Cities 747
- Food, Diaspora, And Nostalgia 753
- Discursive Heat: Humanism In 1980S China 758
- The Advent Of Modern Tibetan Free-Verse Poetry In The Tibetan Language 765
- Literary Representation Of The White Terror And Rupture In Mid-Twentieth- Century Taiwan 771
- Searching For Roots In Literature And Film 777
- The Writer And The Mad(Wo)Man 782
- The Birth Of China’S Literary Avant-Garde 787
- Gao Xing Jian’S Pursuit Of Freedom In The Spirit Of Zhuangzi 791
- “Rewriting Literary History” In The New Era Of Liberated Thought 797
- Anything Chinese About This Suicide? 803
- The Song That Rocked Tiananmen Square 809
- Trauma And Cinematic Lyricism 815
- From The Margins To The Mainstream: A Tale Of Two Wangs 821
- Meng Jinghui And Avant-Garde Chinese Theater 827
- The Death Of Teresa Teng 833
- Formal Experiments In Qiu Miaojin’S “Lesbian I Ching” 839
- Modern China As Seen From An Island Perspective 845
- “The First Modern Asian Gay Novel” 850
- Hong Kong’S Literary Retrocession In Three Fantastical Novels 856
- Representing The Sinophone, Truly: On Tsai Ming-Liang’S I Don’T Want To Sleep Alone 861
- The Silversmith Of Fiction 867
- The Poet In The Machine: Hsia Yü’S Analog Poetry Enters The Digital Age 873
- Sixteen-Year- Old Han Han Roughs Up The Literary Scene 879
- Resurrecting A Postlapsarian Pagoda In A Postrevolutionary World 883
- Wolf Totem And Nature Writing 889
- Chinese Verse Going Viral: “Removing The Shackles Of Poetry” 895
- Suddenly Coming Into My Own 900
- Writer-Wanderer Li Yongping And Chinese Malaysian Literature 906
- Chinese Media Fans Express Patriotism Through Parody Of Japanese Web Comic 912
- Ang Lee’S Adaptation, Pretense, Transmutation 918
- Encountering Shakespeare’S Plays In The Sinophone World 924
- Defending The Dignity Of The Novel 930
- Minority Heritage In The Age Of Multiculturalism 934
- Ye Si And Lyricism 940
- Lightning Strikes Twice: “Mother Tongue” Minority Poetry 946
- Chinese Science Fiction Presents The Posthuman Future 951
- Contributors 959
- Illustration Credits 987
- Index 989
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- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments xxiii
- Introduction. Worlding Literary China 1
- The Multiple Beginnings Of Modern Chinese “Literature” 29
- Dutch Plays, Chinese Novels, And Images Of An Open World 35
- The Revival of Letters in Nineteenth-Century China 46
- Legacies in clash: anticipatory modernity versus imaginary nostalgia 51
- Robert morrison’s chinese literature and translated modernity 56
- Gongyang imaginary and looking to the confucian past for reform 62
- Flowers in the mirror and chinese women: “at home in the world” 69
- Utter disillusion and acts of repentance in late classical poetry 74
- In search of a chinese utopia: the taiping rebellion as a literary event 79
- My life in china and america and transpacific translations 85
- Two chinese poets are homeless at home 91
- Foreign devils, chinese sorcerers, and the politics of literary anachronism 97
- Women writers in early modern china 103
- Wang tao lands in hong kong 108
- Media, literature, and early chinese modernity 114
- The politics of translation and the romanization of chinese into a world language 119
- In lithographic journals, text and image flourish on the same page 125
- Lives of shanghai flowers, dialect fiction, and the genesis of vernacular modernity 133
- The “new novel” before the rise of the new novel 139
- Qiu feng jia and the poetics of tears 144
- Language reform and its discontents 151
- Oracle bones, that dangerous supplement . . . 156
- Liang qichao’s suspended translation and the future of chinese new fiction 161
- Fallen leaves, grieving cicadas, and poetic mourning after the boxer rebellion 167
- Eliza crosses the ice—and an ocean—and uncle tom’s cabin arrives in china 173
- Sherlock holmes comes to china 178
- Imagining Modern Utopia By Rethinking Ancient Historiography 184
- Wen And The “First History(-Ies) Of Chinese Literature” 190
- Münchhausen Travels To China Early In The Summer Of 1905, The Young Writer 196
- Zhang Taiyan And The Revolutionary Politics Of Literary Restoration 202
- Global Theatrical Spectacle In Tokyo And Shanghai 208
- The Death Of China’S First Feminist 214
- The Death Of China’S First Feminist 214
- From Mara To Nobel 219
- A Classical Poetry Society Through Revolutionary Times 225
- Revolution And Love 231
- The Book Of Datong As A Novel Of Utopia 237
- Hu Shi And His Experiments 242
- Inventing Youth In Modern China 248
- Zhou Yucai Writes “A Madman’S Diary” Under The Pen Name Lu Xun 254
- Modern Monkhood 260
- The Big Misnomer: “May Fourth Literature” 265
- Clinical Diagnosis For Taiwan 271
- Turning Babbitt Into Bai Bide 277
- Xiang Kairan’S Monkey 282
- New Culture And The Pedagogy Of Writing 289
- Xu Zhimo And Chinese Romanticism 295
- Enchantment With The Voice 301
- Lu Xun And Tombstones 306
- Mei Lanfang, The Denishawn Dancers, And World Theater 311
- “This Spirit Of Independence And Freedom Of Thought . . . Will Last For Eternity With Heaven And Earth” 319
- The Legend Of A Modern Woman Writer Of Classical Verse 325
- Ba Jin Begins To Write Anarchist Novels 331
- Revolution And Rhine Wine 337
- Genealogies Of Romantic Disease 343
- Gender, Commercialism, And The Literary Market 348
- The Author As Celebrity 354
- Practical Criticism In China 360
- Invitation To A Beheading 365
- The Chinese League Of Left-Wing Writers, 1930–1936 371
- Hei Ying’S “Pagan Love Song” 376
- Roots Of Peace And War, Beauty And Decay, Are Sought In China’S Good Earth 382
- Recollections Of Women Soldiers On The Long March 388
- On Language, Literature, And The Silent Screen 394
- The Execution Of Qu Qiubai 400
- The Child And The Future Of China In The Legend Of Sanmao 406
- Crossing The River And Ding County Experimental Theater 414
- One Day In China 420
- Resonances Of A Visual Image In The Early Twentieth Century 426
- Lu Xun And The Afterlife Of Texts 432
- Cao Yu And His Drama 437
- A Chinese Poet’S Wartime Dream 443
- William Empson, W. H. Auden, And Modernist Poetry In Wartime China 449
- The Lost Novel Of The Nanjing Massacre 456
- The Poetics And Politics Of Neo-Sensationism 462
- Between Chineseness And Modernity: The Film Art Of Fei Mu 467
- Chinese Revolution And Western Literature 473
- Eileen Chang In Hong Kong 478
- In War She Writes 484
- Taiwan’S Genius Lü Heruo 489
- The Cultural And Political Significance Of Mao Zedong’S Talks At The Yan’An Forum On Literature And Art 495
- The Genesis Of Peasant Revolutionary Literature 500
- The North Has Mei Niang 506
- Ideologies Of Sound In Chinese Modernist Poetry 512
- The Enigma Of Yu Dafu And Nanyang Literature 517
- On Literature And Collaboration 522
- On Memory And Trauma: From The 228 Incident To The White Terror 528
- The Socratic Tradition In Modern China 533
- The Life Of A Chinese Literature Textbook 539
- Shen Congwen’S Journey: From Asylum To Museum 544
- A New Time Consciousness: The Great Leap Forward 550
- The Genesis Of Literary History In New China 556
- Transnational Socialist Literature In China 562
- A Provocation To Literary History 568
- Salvaging Chinese Script And Designing The Mingkwai Typewriter 573
- Lao She And America 580
- The Emergence Of Regional Opera On The National Stage 585
- Lu Ling, Hu Feng, And Literary Persecution 590
- Hong Kong Modernism And I 597
- Zhou Shoujuan’S Romance À La Mandarin Ducks And Butterflies 602
- Orphans Of Asia 607
- Sino-Muslims And China’S Latin New Script: A Reunion Between Diaspora And Nationalism 613
- A Monumental Model For Future Perfect Theater 619
- Mao Zedong Publishes Nineteen Poems And Launches The New Folk Song Movement 625
- On The Song Of Youth And Literary Bowdlerization 630
- Hunger And The Chinese Malaysian Leftist Narrative 635
- Three Ironic Moments In My Mother Ru Zhijuan’S Literary Career 640
- The Legacies Of Jaroslav Průšek And C. T. Hsia 644
- Fu Lei And Fou Ts’Ong: Cultural Cosmopolitanism And Its Price 650
- The “Red Pageant” And China’S First Atomic Bomb 656
- Red Prison Files 663
- Modernism Versus Nativism In 1960S Taiwan 669
- The Specter Of Liu Shaoqi 674
- The Red Lantern: Model Plays And Model Revolutionaries 680
- Jin Yong Publishes The Smiling, Proud Wanderer In Ming Pao 685
- The Angel Island Poems: Chinese Verse In The Modern Diaspora 691
- In Search Of Qian Zhongshu 697
- A Subtle Encounter: Tête-Bêche And In The Mood For Love 703
- The Mysterious Death Of Bruce Lee, Chinese Nationalism, And Cinematic Legacy 707
- Yang Mu Negotiates Between Classicism And Modernism 712
- Poems From Underground 718
- A Modern Taiwanese Innocents Abroad 725
- Confessions Of A State Writer: The Novelist Hao Ran Offers A Self-Criticism 731
- Chen Yingzhen On The White Terror In Taiwan 737
- Liu Binyan And The Price Of Relevance 742
- A Tale Of Two Cities 747
- Food, Diaspora, And Nostalgia 753
- Discursive Heat: Humanism In 1980S China 758
- The Advent Of Modern Tibetan Free-Verse Poetry In The Tibetan Language 765
- Literary Representation Of The White Terror And Rupture In Mid-Twentieth- Century Taiwan 771
- Searching For Roots In Literature And Film 777
- The Writer And The Mad(Wo)Man 782
- The Birth Of China’S Literary Avant-Garde 787
- Gao Xing Jian’S Pursuit Of Freedom In The Spirit Of Zhuangzi 791
- “Rewriting Literary History” In The New Era Of Liberated Thought 797
- Anything Chinese About This Suicide? 803
- The Song That Rocked Tiananmen Square 809
- Trauma And Cinematic Lyricism 815
- From The Margins To The Mainstream: A Tale Of Two Wangs 821
- Meng Jinghui And Avant-Garde Chinese Theater 827
- The Death Of Teresa Teng 833
- Formal Experiments In Qiu Miaojin’S “Lesbian I Ching” 839
- Modern China As Seen From An Island Perspective 845
- “The First Modern Asian Gay Novel” 850
- Hong Kong’S Literary Retrocession In Three Fantastical Novels 856
- Representing The Sinophone, Truly: On Tsai Ming-Liang’S I Don’T Want To Sleep Alone 861
- The Silversmith Of Fiction 867
- The Poet In The Machine: Hsia Yü’S Analog Poetry Enters The Digital Age 873
- Sixteen-Year- Old Han Han Roughs Up The Literary Scene 879
- Resurrecting A Postlapsarian Pagoda In A Postrevolutionary World 883
- Wolf Totem And Nature Writing 889
- Chinese Verse Going Viral: “Removing The Shackles Of Poetry” 895
- Suddenly Coming Into My Own 900
- Writer-Wanderer Li Yongping And Chinese Malaysian Literature 906
- Chinese Media Fans Express Patriotism Through Parody Of Japanese Web Comic 912
- Ang Lee’S Adaptation, Pretense, Transmutation 918
- Encountering Shakespeare’S Plays In The Sinophone World 924
- Defending The Dignity Of The Novel 930
- Minority Heritage In The Age Of Multiculturalism 934
- Ye Si And Lyricism 940
- Lightning Strikes Twice: “Mother Tongue” Minority Poetry 946
- Chinese Science Fiction Presents The Posthuman Future 951
- Contributors 959
- Illustration Credits 987
- Index 989