A new literary history of modern China
By: edited by David Der-Wei Wang
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1001
ISBN-13: 9780674967915
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Chinese literature; History and criticism; Literature and society; History
First sentence: A New Literary History of Modern China is a collective project that introduces the “long” modern period of Chinese literature from the late eighteenth century to the new millennium.
Description: A New Literary History of Modern China is a collective project that introduces the "long" modern period of Chinese literature from the late seventeenth century to the new millennium. The volume, with roughly 160 essays contributed by 145 authors on a wide spectrum of topics, is intended for readers who are interested in understanding modern China through its literary and cultural dynamics. At the same time, it takes up the challenge of rethinking the conceptual framework and pedagogical assumptions that underlie the extant paradigm of writing and reading literary history. Beyond the familiar canon of literature as representation, the volume seeks to include the tradition of literature as manifestation, on both textual and contextual levels, in a history of modern Chinese literature. In addition to familiar genres, A New Literary History features a diverse lineup of forms, from presidential speeches to pop song lyrics, from photographs to films, and from political treatises to prison house jottings--forms that not only represent the material world, but can also shape it and complete it. By combining both the pointillism of the chronicle and the comprehensiveness of grand recit, this revisionist endeavor introduces the four themes of "worlding" literary China: architectonics of temporalities; dynamics of travel and transculturation; contestation between wen and mediality; and remapping of the literary cartography of modern China.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements
title: David Der-Wei Wang
pagenum: xxiii; label: Introduction: Worlding Literary China
title: David Der-wei Wang
pagenum: 1; label: The Multiple Beginnings of Modern Chinese “Literature”
title: Sher-Shiueh Li
pagenum: 29; label: Dutch Plays, Chinese Novels, and Images of an Open World
title: Paize Keulemans
pagenum: 35; label: The Revival of Letters in Nineteenth-Century China
title: Theodore Huters
pagenum: 46; label: Legacies in Clash: Anticipatory Modernity versus Imaginary Nostalgia
title: Andrew Schonebaum
pagenum: 51; label: Robert Morrison’s Chinese Literature and Translated Modernity
title: John T. P. Lai
pagenum: 56; label: Gongyang Imaginary and Looking to the Confucian Past for Reform
title: Benjamin A. Elman
pagenum: 62; label: Flowers in the Mirror and Chinese Women: “At Home in the World”
title: Carlos Rojas
pagenum: 69; label: Utter Disillusion and Acts of Repentance in Late Classical Poetry
title: Stephen Owen
pagenum: 74; label: In Search of a Chinese Utopia: The Taiping Rebellion as a Literary Event
title: Huan Jin
pagenum: 79; label: My Life in China and America and Transpacific Translations
title: Chih-Ming Wang
pagenum: 85; label: Two Chinese Poets Are Homeless at Home
title: Xiaofei Tian
pagenum: 91; label: Foreign Devils, Chinese Sorcerers, and the Politics of Literary Anachronism
title: David Der-Wei Wang
pagenum: 97; label: Women Writers in Early Modern China
title: Ellen Widmer
pagenum: 103; label: Wang Tao Lands in Hong Kong
title: Emma J. Teng
pagenum: 108; label: Media, Literature, and Early Chinese Modernity
title: Rudolf G. Wagner
pagenum: 114; label: The Politics of Translation and the Romanization of Chinese into a World Language
title: Uganda Sze Pui Kwan
pagenum: 119; label: In Lithographic Journals, Text and Image Flourish on the Same Page
title: Xia Xiaohong and Chen Pingyuan
pagenum: 125; label: Lives of Shanghai Flowers, Dialect Fiction, and the Genesis of Vernacular Modernity
title: Alexander Des Forges
pagenum: 133; label: The “New Novel” before the Rise of the New Novel
title: Patrick Dewes Hanan
pagenum: 139; label: Qiu Fengjia and the Poetics of Tears
title: Chien-Hsin Tsai
pagenum: 144; label: Language Reform and Its Discontents
title: Theodore Huters
pagenum: 151; label: Oracle Bones, That Dangerous Supplement…
title: Andrea Bachner
pagenum: 156; label: Liang Qichao’s Suspended Translation and the Future of Chinese New Fiction
title: Satoru Hashimoto
pagenum: 161; label: Fallen Leaves, Grieving Cicadas, and Poetic Mourning after the Boxer Rebellion
title: Shengqing Wu
pagenum: 167; label: Eliza Crosses the Ice—and an Ocean—and Uncle Tom’s Cabin Arrives in China
title: Michael Gibbs Hill
pagenum: 173; label: Sherlock Holmes Comes to China
title: Wei Yan
pagenum: 178; label: Imagining Modern Utopia by Rethinking Ancient Historiography
title: N. Göran D. Malmqvist
pagenum: 184; label: Wen and the “First History(-ies) of Chinese Literature”
title: Kwok Kou Leonard Chan
pagenum: 190; label: Münchhausen Travels to China
title: Géraldine Fiss
pagenum: 196; label: Zhang Taiyan and the Revolutionary Politics of Literary Restoration
title: Tsuyoshi Ishii
pagenum: 202; label: Global Theatrical Spectacle in Tokyo and Shanghai
title: Natascha Gentz
pagenum: 208; label: The Death of China’s First Feminist
title: Hu Ying
pagenum: 214; label: From Mara to Nobel
title: David Der-wei Wang
pagenum: 219; label: A Classical Poetry Society through Revolutionary Times
title: Shengqing Wu
pagenum: 225; label: Revolution and Love
title: Haiyan Lee
pagenum: 231; label: The Book of Datong as a Novel of Utopia
title: Kai-Cheung Dung
pagenum: 237; label: Hu Shi and His Experiments
title: Susan Chan Egan
pagenum: 242; label: Inventing Youth in Modern China
title: Mingwei Song
pagenum: 248; label: Zhou Yucai Writes “A Madman’s Diary” under the Pen Name Lu Xun
title: Ha Jin
pagenum: 254; label: Modern Monkhood
title: Ying Lei
pagenum: 260; label: The Big Misnomer: “May Fourth Literature”
title: Michel Hockx
pagenum: 265; label: Clinical Diagnosis for Taiwan
title: Pei-Yin Lin
pagenum: 271; label: Turning Babbitt into Bai Bide
title: Tze-Ki Hon
pagenum: 277; label: Xiang Kairan’s Monkey
title: John Christopher Hamm
pagenum: 282; label: New Culture and the Pedagogy of Writing
title: Charles A. Laughlin
pagenum: 289; label: Xu Zhimo and Chinese Romanticism
title: Michelle Yeh
pagenum: 295; label: Enchantment with the Voice
title: Chen Pingyuan
pagenum: 301; label: Lu Xun and Tombstones
title: Wang Hui
pagenum: 306; label: Mei Lanfang, the Denishawn Dancers, and World Theater
title: Catherine Vance Yeh
pagenum: 311; label: “This Spirit of In de pen dence and Freedom of Thought . . . Will Last for Eternity with Heaven and Earth”
title: Wai-Yee Li
pagenum: 319; label: The Legend of a Modern Woman Writer of Classical Verse
title: Grace S. Fong
pagenum: 325; label: Ba Jin Begins to Write Anarchist Novels
title: Mingwei Song
pagenum: 331; label: Revolution and Rhine Wine
title: Pu Wang
pagenum: 337; label: Genealogies of Romantic Disease
title: Andrew Schonebaum
pagenum: 343; label: Gender, Commercialism, and the Literary Market
title: Amy Dooling
pagenum: 348; label: The Author as Celebrity
title: Eileen Cheng-Yin Chow
pagenum: 354; label: Practical Criticism in China
title: Q. S. Tong
pagenum: 360; label: Invitation to a Beheading
title: David Der-Wei Wang
pagenum: 365; label: The Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers, 1930–1936
title: Lawrence Wang-Chi Wong
pagenum: 371; label: Hei Ying’s “Pagan Love Song”
title: Andrew F. Jones
pagenum: 376; label: Roots of Peace and War, Beauty and Decay, Are Sought in China’s Good Earth
title: Jeffrey C. Kinkley
pagenum: 382; label: Recollections of Women Soldiers on the Long March
title: Helen Praeger Young
pagenum: 388; label: On Language, Literature, and the Silent Screen
title: Kristine Harris
pagenum: 394; label: The Execution of Qu Qiubai
title: Andy Rodekohr
pagenum: 400; label: The Child and the Future of China in the Legend of Sanmao
title: Lanjun Xu
pagenum: 406; label: Crossing the River and Ding County Experimental Theater
title: Man He
pagenum: 414; label: One Day in China
title: Charles A. Laughlin
pagenum: 420; label: Resonances of a Visual Image in the Early Twentieth Century
title: Xiaobing Tang
pagenum: 426; label: Lu Xun and the Afterlife of Texts
title: Eileen J. Cheng
pagenum: 432; label: Cao Yu and His Drama
title: Li Ruru and David Jiang
pagenum: 437; label: A Chinese Poet’s Wartime Dream
title: John A. Crespi
pagenum: 443; label: William Empson, W. H. Auden, and Modernist Poetry in War time China
title: Q. S. Tong
pagenum: 449; label: The Lost Novel of the Nanjing Massacre
title: Michael Berry
pagenum: 456; label: The Poetics and Politics of Neo-Sensationism
title: Peng Hsiao-Yen
pagenum: 462; label: Between Chineseness and Modernity: The Film Art of Fei Mu
title: Wong Ain-Ling
pagenum: 467; label: Chinese Revolution and Western Literature
title: Ban Wang
pagenum: 473; label: Eileen Chang in Hong Kong
title: Leo Ou-Fan Lee
pagenum: 478; label: In War She Writes
title: Katherine Hui-Ling Chou
pagenum: 484; label: Taiwan’s Genius Lü Heruo
title: Faye Yuan Kleeman
pagenum: 489; label: The Cultural and Political Significance of Mao Zedong’s Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art
title: Qian Liqun
pagenum: 495; label: The Genesis of Peasant Revolutionary Literature
title: Hui Jiang
pagenum: 500; label: The North Has Mei Niang
title: Norman Smith
pagenum: 506; label: Ideologies of Sound in Chinese Modernist Poetry
title: Nick Admussen
pagenum: 512; label: The Enigma of Yu Dafu and Nanyang Literature
title: E. K. Tan
pagenum: 517; label: On Literature and Collaboration
title: Susan Daruvala
pagenum: 522; label: On Memory and Trauma: From the 228 Incident to the White Terror
title: Kang-i Sun Chang
pagenum: 528; label: The Socratic Tradition in Modern China
title: Jingling Chen
pagenum: 533; label: The Life of a Chinese Literature Textbook
title: Joseph R. Allen
pagenum: 539; label: Shen Congwen’s Journey: From Asylum to Museum
title: Xiaojue Wang
pagenum: 544; label: A New Time Consciousness: The Great Leap Forward
title: Har Ye Kan
pagenum: 550; label: The Genesis of Literary History in New China
title: Yingjin Zhang
pagenum: 556; label: Transnational Socialist Literature in China
title: Nicolai Volland
pagenum: 562; label: A Provocation to Literary History
title: Shuang Shen
pagenum: 568; label: Salvaging Chinese Script and Designing the Mingkwai Typewriter
title: Jing Tsu
pagenum: 573; label: Lao She and America
title: Richard Jean So
pagenum: 580; label: The Emergence of Regional Opera on the National Stage
title: Wilt L. Idema
pagenum: 585; label: Lu Ling, Hu Feng, and Literary Persecution
title: Kirk A. Denton
pagenum: 590; label: Hong Kong Modernism and I
title: Wai-lim Yip
pagenum: 597; label: Zhou Shoujuan’s Romance à la Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies
title: Jianhua Chen
pagenum: 602; label: Orphans of Asia
title: Chien-hsin Tsai
pagenum: 607; label: Sino-Muslims and China’s Latin New Script: A Reunion between Diaspora and Nationalism
title: Jing Tsu
pagenum: 613; label: A Monumental Model for Future Perfect Theater
title: Tarryn Li-min Chun
pagenum: 619; label: Mao Zedong Publishes Nineteen Poems and Launches the New Folk Song Movement
title: Xiaofei Tian
pagenum: 625; label: On The Song of Youth and Literary Bowdlerization
title: Yunzhong Shu
pagenum: 630; label: Hunger and the Chinese Malaysian Leftist Narrative
title: Chong Fah Hing and Kyle Shernuk
pagenum: 635; label: Three Ironic Moments in My Mother Ru Zhijuan’s Literary Career
title: Wang Anyi
pagenum: 640; label: The Legacies of Jaroslav Průšek and C. T. Hsia
title: Leo Ou-fan Lee
pagenum: 644; label: Fu Lei and Fou Ts’ong: Cultural Cosmopolitanism and Its Price
title: Guangchen Chen
pagenum: 650; label: The “Red Pageant” and China’s First Atomic Bomb
title: Xiaomei Chen
pagenum: 656; label: Red Prison Files
title: Jie Li
pagenum: 663; label: Modernism versus Nativism in 1960s Taiwan
title: Christopher Lupke
pagenum: 669; label: The Specter of Liu Shaoqi
title: Ying Qian
pagenum: 674; label: The Red Lantern: Model Plays and Model Revolutionaries
title: Yomi Braester
pagenum: 680; label: Jin Yong Publishes The Smiling, Proud Wanderer in Ming Pao
title: Petrus Liu
pagenum: 685; label: The Angel Island Poems: Chinese Verse in the Modern Diaspora
title: Steven Yao
pagenum: 691; label: In Search of Qian Zhongshu
title: Theodore Huters
pagenum: 697; label: A Subtle Encounter: Tête-bêche and In the Mood for Love
title: Mary Shuk-han Wong
pagenum: 703; label: The Mysterious Death of Bruce Lee, Chinese Nationalism, and Cinematic Legacy
title: Stephen Teo
pagenum: 707; label: Yang Mu Negotiates between Classicism and Modernism
title: Michelle Yeh
pagenum: 712; label: Poems from Underground
title: Lucas Klein
pagenum: 718; label: A Modern Taiwanese Innocents Abroad
title: Clint Capehart
pagenum: 725; label: Confessions of a State Writer: The Novelist Hao Ran Offers a Self-Criticism
title: Richard King
pagenum: 731; label: Chen Yingzhen on the White Terror in Taiwan
title: Ping-hui Liao
pagenum: 737; label: Liu Binyan and the Price of Relevance
title: Ping-hui Liao
pagenum: 742; label: A Tale of Two Cities
title: Lingchei Letty Chen
pagenum: 747; label: Food, Diaspora, and Nostalgia
title: Weijie Song
pagenum: 753; label: Discursive Heat: Humanism in 1980s China
title: Gloria Davies
pagenum: 758; label: The Advent of Modern Tibetan Free-Verse Poetry in the Tibetan Language
title: Lauran R. Hartley
pagenum: 765; label: Literary Representation of the White Terror and Rupture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Taiwan
title: Sung- sheng Yvonne Chang
pagenum: 771; label: Searching for Roots in Literature and Film
title: Michael Berry
pagenum: 777; label: The Writer and the Mad(wo)man
title: Andrea Bachner
pagenum: 782; label: The Birth of China’s Literary Avant-Garde
title: Yu Hua
pagenum: 787; label: Gao Xing jian’s Pursuit of Freedom in the Spirit of Zhuangzi
title: Liu Jianmei
pagenum: 791; label: “Rewriting Literary History” in the New Era of Liberated Thought
title: Chen Sihe
pagenum: 797; label: Anything Chinese about This Suicide?
title: Maghiel van Crevel
pagenum: 803; label: The Song That Rocked Tiananmen Square
title: Ao Wang
pagenum: 809; label: Trauma and Cinematic Lyricism
title: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
pagenum: 815; label: From the Margins to the Mainstream: A Tale of Two Wangs
title: Kyle Shernuk and Dylan Suher
pagenum: 821; label: Meng Jinghui and Avant-Garde Chinese Theater
title: Claire Conceison
pagenum: 827; label: The Death of Teresa Teng
title: Andy Rodekohr
pagenum: 833; label: Formal Experiments in Qiu Miaojin’s “Lesbian I Ching”
title: Ari Larissa Heinrich
pagenum: 839; label: Modern China as Seen from an Island Perspective
title: Hsinya Huang
pagenum: 845; label: “The First Modern Asian Gay Novel”
title: John B. Weinstein
pagenum: 850; label: Hong Kong’s Literary Retrocession in Three Fantastical Novels
title: Bonnie S. McDougall
pagenum: 856; label: Representing the Sinophone, Truly: On Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
title: Pheng Cheah
pagenum: 861; label: The Silversmith of Fiction
title: Chu T’ien-hsin
pagenum: 867; label: The Poet in the Machine: Hsia Yü’s Analog Poetry Enters the Digital Age
title: Brian Skerratt
pagenum: 873; label: Sixteen-Year-Old Han Han Roughs Up the Literary Scene
title: Martin Woesler
pagenum: 879; label: Resurrecting a Postlapsarian Pagoda in a Postrevolutionary World
title: Tarryn Li-Min Chun
pagenum: 883; label: Wolf Totemand Nature Writing
title: Karen L. Thornber
pagenum: 889; label: Chinese Verse Going Viral: “Removing the Shackles of Poetry”
title: Heather Inwood and Xiaofei Tian
pagenum: 895; label: Suddenly Coming into My Own
title: Li Juan
pagenum: 900; label: Writer-Wanderer Li Yongping and Chinese Malaysian Literature
title: Alison M. Groppe
pagenum: 906; label: Chinese Media Fans Express Patriotism through Parody of Japanese Web Comic
title: Casey Lee
pagenum: 912; label: Ang Lee’s Adaptation, Pretense, Transmutation
title: Darrell William Davis
pagenum: 918; label: Encountering Shakespeare’s Plays in the Sinophone World
title: Alexa Huang
pagenum: 924; label: Defending the Dignity of the Novel
title: Mo Yan
pagenum: 930; label: Minority Heritage in the Age of Multiculturalism
title: Kyle Shernuk
pagenum: 934; label: Ye Si and Lyricism
title: Rey Chow
pagenum: 940; label: Lightning Strikes Twice: “Mother Tongue” Minority Poetry
title: Mark Bender
pagenum: 946; label: Chinese Science Fiction Presents the Posthuman Future
title: Mingwei Song
pagenum: 951; label: Contributors
pagenum: 959; label: Illustration Credits
pagenum: 987; label: Index
pagenum: 989