Introduction: The Limits of Wen (?) Part I: Structure 1.1 Kirk Denton-Lu Xun, Returning Home, and May Fourth Modernity 1.2 Ping-hui Liao-Travels in Modern China: From Zhang Taiyan to Gao Xingjian 1.3 XIA Xiaohong-The Construction of the Modern Chinese Concept of Xiju ("drama") 1.4 Nathaniel Isaacson-Orientalism, Scientific Practice and Popular Culture in Late Qing China 1.5 CHEN Pingyuan-The Story of Literary History 1.6 Andrea Bachner-The Secrets of Language: Chen Li's Sinographic Anagrams 1.7 Michael Hill-On Not Knowing: Translation, Knowledge Work, and Modern Literature 1.8 MEI Chia-ling-Voice and the Quest for Modernity in Chinese Literature 1.9 Shelby Chan, Gilbert Fong-Hongkong-Speak: Cantonese and Rupert Chan's Translated Theater 1.10 Xiaomei Chen-Singing "The Internationale": From the "Red Silk Road" to the Red Classics 1.11 John Crespi-Beyond Satire: The Pictorial Imagination of Zhang Guangyu's 1945 Journey to the West in Cartoons 1.12 Laikwan Pang-The Allegory of Time and Space: Tian Han's Historical Dramas in the Great Leap Forward Period 1.13 YAN Lianke-An Examination of China's Censorship System 1.14 Jie Li-"Are our drawers empty?": Nie Gannu's Dossier Literature 1.15 Junning Fu-A Dream of Returning to 1997: The Phenomenology of Chinese Web Fantasy Literature Part II: Taxonomy 2.1 David Porter-Early Modern: Comparative Approaches to Literary Early Modernity 2.2 Xiaojue Wang-Borders and Borderlands Narratives in Cold War China 2.3 Xiaofei Tian-Hao Ran and the Cultural Revolution 2.4 Matthew Fraleigh-At the Borders of Chinese Literature: Poetic Exchange in the Nineteenth-Century Sinosphere 2.5 Kwok Kou Leonard Chan-Sense of Place and Urban Images: Reading Hong Kong in Hong Kong Poetry 2.6 Yvonne Sung-sheng Chang-Wartime Taiwan: Epitome of an East Asian Modality of the Modern Literary Institution? 2.7 CHANG Cheng and LIAO Yun-chang- Song of Exile, Four-Way Voice: The Blood-and-Sweat Writings of Southeast Asian Migrants in Taiwan 2.8 Shuang Shen-Where the "Trans-Pacific" meets Chinese Literature 2.9 Belinda Kong-Xiaolu Guo and the Contemporary Chinese Anglophone Novel 2.10 Mark Bender-Poet of the Late Summer Corn: Aku Wuwu and Contemporary Yi Poetry 2.11 JI Jin-Literary Translation and Modern Chinese Literature 2.12 Chris Hamm-Genre in Modern Chinese Fiction: Righteous Heroes of Modern Times 2.13 Mingwei Song-Representations of the Invisible: Chinese Science Fiction in the Twenty-First Century 2.14 Rey Chow-Leung Ping-kwan: Shuqing and Reveries of Space 2.15 Nick Admussen-Genre Occludes the Creation of Genre: Bing Xin, Tagore, and Prose Poetry Part III: Methodology 3.1 David Der-wei Wang-Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times: Three Encounters 3.2 Jianmei Liu-Gao Xingjian: The Triumph of the Modern Zhuangzi 3.3 Haun Saussy and GE Zhaoguang-Historiography in the Chinese Twentieth Century 3.4 Yingjin Zhang-Structure and Rupture in Literary History and Historiography 3.5 Viren Murthy-Reading Lu Xun's Early Essays in Relation to Marxism 3.6 WANG Hui-Intuition, Repetition, and Revolution: Six Moments in the Life of Ah Q 3.7 Chaoyang Liao-From Shame to Freedom: Undoing Spectral Identity in Li Ang's Seeing Ghosts 3.8 Ban Wang-Passion and Politics in Revolution: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Ding Ling 3.9 Tze-lan Sang-Eileen Chang and the Genius Art of Failure 3.10 Eng Kiong (EK) Tan-From Exile to Queer Homecoming: Chen Xue's A Wife's Diary 3.11 Karen Thornber-Care, Vulnerability, Resilience: Ecologies of HIV/AIDS in Chinese Literature 3.12 Brian Bernards-Malaysia as Method: Xiao Hei and Ethno-Linguistic Literary Taxonomy 3.13 Chien-hsin Tsai-A Distant Shore: Migration, Intextuation, and Postloyalism in Chia Joo Ming's "Ambon Vacation" 3.14 Carlos Rojas-On Time: Anticipatory Nostalgia in Dung Kai-Cheung's Fiction Conclusion: Chinese Literatures in Conjunction Index

Selling point: Features over 40 original critical essays from established and rising stars in the field of modern Chinese literature Selling point: Includes contributions from scholars based in the US, Taiwan, and China Selling point: Covers a diverse array of genres--poetry, drama, novels, comics--and scholarly approaches

Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. Andrea Bachner is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University.

Selling point: Features over 40 original critical essays from established and rising stars in the field of modern Chinese literature Selling point: Includes contributions from scholars based in the US, Taiwan, and China Selling point: Covers a diverse array of genres--poetry, drama, novels, comics--and scholarly approaches