Lu Ling, Hu Feng, And Literary Persecution

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