Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature

Introduction; C.Laughlin PART 1: REWRITING CULTURAL HISTORY The Rhetorics of Modernity and the Logics of the Fetish; A.Des Forges Feminine Histories: Inventing Tradition in Modern China; M.Ferry Desire and Disease: Bai Wei and the Thirties Literary Left; A.Dooling Remembering the Butterfly: Ye Zhaoyan's Passionate Memory and Fictional History; G.Xu Toward a Theory of Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng Literature; X.Yang PART 2: DISCOURSIVE COMMUNITIES Reproducing the Self: Consumption, Imaginary, and Identity in Chinese Women's Autobiographical Practice in the 1990s; W.Lingzhen What's Chinese in Chinese Diasporic Literature?; E.Teng Maxine Hong Kingston's Journey across East and West in Tripmaster Monkey; L.Chen PART 3: THE EMERGENCE OF VISUAL CULTURE Lu Xun and Visual Vestiges from the Past; C.Rojas The Dream of Flying: Taipei's Cinematic Poetics of Demolition; Y.Braester The Comedy of Dialogues: Li Guoxiu's Ambiguous Answer to the Taiwan Question; J.Weinstein Boundary-Crossing in The Great Going Abroad; C.Conceison PART 4: THE QUOTIDIAN APOCALYPSE Visions of the Apocalypse in Contemporary Chinese Novels; J.C.Kinkley Post-Mao Urban Fiction and the Ethics of Authenticity; R.Visser Capitalist and Enlightenment Values in 1990s Chinese Fiction; D.Sabina Knight Writing Against Consumer Sexuality in Late Capitalism; T-l.D.Sang

CHARLES LAUGHLIN is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature, Yale University, USA. His previous book, Chinese Reportage:The Aesthetics of Historical Experience, was published by Duke University Press in 2002.