The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures

Rather than attempt to offer a definition of modern Chinese literature or provide a comprehensive survey of all that the category might entail, this volume instead uses a series of strategic interventions to illustrate the structural conditions out of which modern Chinese literature has emerged, how it is viewed, and how it may be interpreted. Our goal, in other words, is to sh...

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Rather than attempt to offer a definition of modern Chinese literature or provide a comprehensive survey of all that the category might entail, this volume instead uses a series of strategic interventions to illustrate the structural conditions out of which modern Chinese literature has emerged, how it is viewed, and how it may be interpreted. Our goal, in other words, is to showcase a set of methodologies that one may use to approach modern Chinese literature, while in the process offering different ways of reassessing what modern Chinese literature is in the first place. We contend that modern Chinese literature is not a static category but rather it is a dynamic entity whose significance and limits are continually being reshaped through the process of interpretation itself. Similarly, modern Chinese literature is not a singular, unitary category, but rather a plurality of overlapping categories—of modern Chinese literatures. Divided into three parts, on “structure,” “taxonomy,” and “methodology,” this volume contains 46 original articles that examine unfamiliar texts and literary phenomena and offer new perspectives on more familiar ones.

Carlos Rojas, editor

Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University, and his research focuses on issues of gender and visuality, corporeality and infection, nationalism and diaspora studies. He is the author of The Great Wall: A Cultural History (Harvard University Press, 2010) and The Naked Gaze...

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Carlos Rojas, editor

Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University, and his research focuses on issues of gender and visuality, corporeality and infection, nationalism and diaspora studies. He is the author of The Great Wall: A Cultural History (Harvard University Press, 2010) and The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008). He is the co-editor, with Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, of Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon (Routledge: 2009) and, with David Der-wei Wang, of Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History (Duke University Press, 2007). He is also the translator of Yan Lianke’s novel Lenin’s Kisses, and the co-translator, again with Eileen Chow, of Yu Hua’s two-volume novel, Brothers (Pantheon, 2009).

Andrea Bachner, editor

Andrea Bachner is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her research explores comparative intersections between Sinophone, Latin American, and European cultural productions in dialogue with theories of interculturality, sexuality, and mediality. She is the author of Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Cultures (Columbia University Press).

Introduction: The Limits of Wen (文)
Carlos Rojas
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Lu Xun, Returning Home, and May Fourth Modernity
Kirk A. Denton
Travels in Modern China: From Zhang Taiyan to Gao Xingjian
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Introduction: The Limits of Wen (文)
Carlos Rojas
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Lu Xun, Returning Home, and May Fourth Modernity
Kirk A. Denton
Travels in Modern China: From Zhang Taiyan to Gao Xingjian
Ping-hui Liao
The Construction of the Modern Chinese Concept of Xiju (“drama”)
XIA Xiaohong
Orientalism, Scientific Practice, and Popular Culture in Late Qing China
Nathaniel Isaacson
The Story of Literary History
CHEN Pingyuan
The Secrets of Language: Chen Li’s Sinographic Anagrams
Andrea Bachner
On Not Knowing: Translation, Knowledge Work, and Modern Literature
Michael Gibbs Hill
Voice and the Quest for Modernity in Chinese Literature
MEI Chia-ling
Hongkong-Speak: Cantonese and Rupert Chan’s Translated Theater
Shelby Kar-yan Chan and Gilbert C. F. Fong
Singing “The Internationale”: From the “Red Silk Road” to the Red Classics
Xiaomei Chen
Beyond Satire: The Pictorial Imagination of Zhang Guangyu’s 1945 Journey to the West in Cartoons
John A. Crespi
The Allegory of Time and Space: Tian Han’s Historical Dramas in the Great Leap Forward Period
Laikwan Pang
An Examination of China’s Censorship System
YAN Lianke
“Are our drawers empty?”: Nie Gannu’s Dossier Literature
Jie Li
A Dream of Returning to 1997: The Phenomenology of Chinese Web Fantasy Literature
Junning Fu
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Early Modern Comparative Approaches to Literary Early Modernity
David Porter
Borders and Borderlands Narratives in Cold War China
Xiaojue Wang
Hao Ran and the Cultural Revolution
Xiaofei Tian
At the Borders of Chinese Literature: Poetic Exchange in the Nineteenth-Century Sinosphere
Matthew Fraleigh
Sense of Place and Urban Images: Reading Hong Kong in Hong Kong Poetry
Kwok-Kou Leonard CHAN
Wartime Taiwan: Epitome of an East Asian Modality of the Modern Literary Institution?
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
Song of Exile, Four-Way Voice: The Blood-and-Sweat Writings of Southeast Asian Migrants in Taiwan
CHANG Cheng and LIAO Yun-chang
Where the “Trans-Pacific” Meets Chinese Literature
Shuang Shen
Xiaolu Guo and the Contemporary Chinese Anglophone Novel
Belinda Kong
Poet of the Late Summer Corn: Aku Wuwu and Contemporary Yi Poetry
Mark Bender
Literary Translation and Modern Chinese Literature
JI Jin
Genre in Modern Chinese Fiction: Righteous Heroes of Modern Times
Chris Hamm
Representations of the Invisible: Chinese Science Fiction in the Twenty-First Century
Mingwei Song
Leung Ping-kwan: Shuqing and Reveries of Space
Rey Chow
Genre Occludes the Creation of Genre: Bing Xin, Tagore, and Prose Poetry
Nick Admussen
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Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times: Three Encounters
David Der-wei Wang
Gao Xingjian: The Triumph of the Modern Zhuangzi
Jianmei Liu
Historiography in the Chinese Twentieth Century
Haun Saussy and GE Zhaoguang
Structure and Rupture in Literary History and Historiography
Yingjin Zhang
Reading Lu Xun’s Early Essays in Relation to Marxism
Viren Murthy
Intuition, Repetition, and Revolution: Six Moments in the Life of Ah Q
WANG Hui
From Shame to Freedom: Undoing Spectral Identity in Li Ang’s Seeing Ghosts
Chaoyang Liao
Passion and Politics in Revolution: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Ding Ling
Ban Wang
Eileen Chang and the Genius Art of Failure
Tze-lan Deborah Sang
From Exile to Queer Homecoming: Chen Xue’s A Wife’s Diary
E. K. Tan
Care, Vulnerability, Resilience: Ecologies of HIV/AIDS in Chinese Literature
Karen Thornber
Malaysia as Method: Xiao Hei and Ethnolinguistic Literary Taxonomy
Brian Bernards
A Distant Shore: Migration, Intextuation, and Postloyalism in Chia Joo Ming’s “Ambon Vacation”
Chien-hsin Tsai
On Time: Anticipatory Nostalgia in Dung Kai-Cheung’s Fiction
Carlos Rojas
Conclusion: Chinese Literatures in Conjunction
Andrea Bachner
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Appendix: List of Literary Works by Author
Index
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