15. The Madman That Was Ah Q: Tradition and Modernity in Lu Xun’s Fiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Chronology of Major Historical Events xi
5. Part I. Thematic Essays
6. 1. Historical Overview 3
7. 2. Modern Chinese Literature as an Institution: Canon and Literary History 27
8. 3. Language and Literary Form 38
9. 4. Literary Communities and the Production of Literature 46
10. 5. Between Tradition and Modernity: Contested Classical Poetry 55
11. 6. Diaspora in Modern Chinese Literature 62
12. 7. Sinophone Literature 72
13. 8. Chinese Literature and Film Adaptation 80
14. Part II. Authors, Works, Schools
15. 9. The Late Qing Poetry Revolution: Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian, and Chinese Literary Modernity 89
16. 10. The Uses of Fiction: Liang Qichao and His Contemporaries 97
17. 11. Late Qing Fiction 104
18. 12. Zhou Shoujuan’s Love Stories and Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies Fiction 111
19. 13. Form and Reform: New Poetry and the Crescent Moon Society 121
20. 14. Reconsidering the Origins of Modern Chinese Women’s Writing 128
21. 15. The Madman That Was Ah Q: Tradition and Modernity in Lu Xun’s Fiction 136
22. 16. Romantic Sentiment and the Problem of the Subject: Yu Dafu 145
23. 17. Feminism and Revolution: The Work and Life of Ding Ling 152
24. 18. The Debate on Revolutionary Literature 159
25. 19. Mao Dun, the Modern Novel, and the Representation of Women 163
26. 20. Ba Jin’s Family: Fiction, Representation, and Relevance 169
27. 21. Chinese Modernism: The New Sensationists 176
28. 22. Shen Congwen and Imagined Native Communities 183
29. 23. Xiao Hong’s Field of Life and Death 189
30. 24. Performing the Nation: Chinese Drama and Theater 195
31. 25. Cao Yu and Thunderstorm 205
32. 26. The Reluctant Nihilism of Lao She’s Rickshaw 211
33. 27. Eileen Chang and Narratives of Cities and Worlds 217
34. 28. Literature and Politics: Mao Zedong’s “Yan’an Talks” and Party Rectification 224
35. 29. Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang: A Literary Marriage 231
36. 30. Revolutionary Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism: Song of Youth 237
37. 31. The Hundred Flowers: Qin Zhaoyang, Wang Meng, and Liu Binyan 245
38. 32. Cold War Fiction from Taiwan and the Modernists 250
39. 33. Nativism and Localism in Taiwanese Literature 258
40. 34. The Cultural Revolution Model Theater 267
41. 35. Martial Arts Fiction and Jin Yong 274
42. 36. Taiwan Romance: Qiong Yao and San Mao 280
43. 37. Misty Poetry 286
44. 38. Scar Literature and the Memory of Trauma 293
45. 39. Culture Against Politics: Roots-Seeking Literature 299
46. 40. Mo Yan 307
47. 41. Avant-Garde Fiction in Post-Mao China 313
48. 42. Contemporary Experimental Theaters in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong 320
49. 43. Modern Poetry of Taiwan 327
50. 44. Homoeroticism in Modern Chinese Literature 336
51. 45. Contemporary Urban Fiction: Rewriting the City 345
52. 46. Xi Xi and Tales of Hong Kong 355
53. 47. Writing Taiwan’s Fin-de-Siècle Splendor: Zhu Tianwen and Zhu Tianxin 363
54. 48. Wang Anyi 371
55. 49. Wang Shuo 379
56. 50. Commercialization of Literature in the Post-Mao Era: Yu Hua, Beauty Writers, and Youth Writers 386
57. 51. Popular Genre Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy 394
58. 52. Word and Image: Gao Xingjian 400
59. 53. Hong Kong Voices: Literature from the Late Twentieth Century to the New Millennium 407
60. 54. Avant-Garde Poetry in China Since the 1980s 414
61. 55. Taiwan Literature in the Post–Martial Law Era 422
62. 56. Speaking from the Margins: Yan Lianke 431
63. 57. Internet Literature: From YY to MOOC 436
64. Index 441