A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

Yingjin Zhang is Professor of Chinese Studies and Comparative Literature at University of California, San Diego, USA, and Visiting Chair Professor of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is the author of, amongst others, Screening China (2002), Chinese National Cinema (2004), and Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China (2010). He is co-author of Encyclopedia of Chinese Film (1998), and New Chinese-Language Documentaries (2015), and editor of A Companion to Chinese Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xv1 General Introduction 1Yingjin ZhangPart I History and Geography 392 Literary Modernity in Perspective 41Zhang Longxi3 Late Qing Literature, 1890s-1910s 54Hu Ying4 War, Revolution, and Urban Transformations: Chinese Literature of the Republican Era, 1920s-1940s 67Nicole Huang5 Socialist Literature Driven by Radical Modernity, 1950-1980 81Chen Xiaoming (translated by Qin Liyan)6 Thirty Years of New Era Literature: From Elitization to De-Elitization 98Tao Dongfeng (translated by Angie Chau)7 Building a Modern Institution of Literature: The Case of Taiwan 116Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang8 Sinophone Literature 134Ping-hui LiaoPart II Genres and Types 1499 Modern Poetry in Chinese: Challenges and Contingencies 151Michelle Yeh10 Modern Chinese Theater Study and its Century-Long History 167Xiaomei Chen11 Literariness (Wen) and Character (Zhi): From Baihua to Yuluti and Dazhongyu 181Qian Suoqiao12 Fiction in Modern China: Modernity through Storytelling 195Yiyan Wang13 Modern China's Translated Literature 214Zha Mingjian14 Writing Chinese Feminism(s) 228Amy Dooling15 The World of Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction: From Shanghai Express to Rivers and Lakes of Knights-Errant 244Yi Zheng16 Ethnic Minority Literature 261Mark BenderPart III Cultures and Media 27717 Use in Uselessness: How Western Aesthetics Made Chinese Literature More Political 279Ban Wang18 The Linguistic Turns and Literary Fields in Twentieth-Century China 295Jianhua Chen19 The Significance of the Northeastern Writers in Exile, 1931-1945 312Haili Kong20 Writing Cities 326Weijie Song21 Divided Unities of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture: The Modern Girl, Woodcuts, and Contemporary Painter-Poets 343Paul Manfredi22 All the Literature That's Fit to Print: A Print Culture Perspective on Modern Chinese Literature 360Nicolai Volland23 The Proliferating Genre: Web-Based Time-Travel Fiction and the New Media in Contemporary China 379Jin FengPart IV Issues and Debates 39524 The Persistence of Form: Nation, Literary Movement, and the Fiction of Ng Kim Chew 397Carlos Rojas25 The Modern Girl in Modern Chinese Literature 411Tze?]lan D. Sang26 Body as Phenomenon: A Brief Survey of Secondary Literature of the Body in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 424Ari Larissa Heinrich27 The Post-Maoist Politics of Memory 434Yomi Braester28 Writing Historical Traumas in the Everyday 452Lingchei Letty Chen29 A Brief Overview of Chinese-Language Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 465Chen Sihe (translated by Alvin Ka Hin Wong)30 Toward a Typology of Literary Modernity in China: A Survey of English Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature 483Yingjin ZhangBibliography 501Glossary 503Index 548