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"This present volume, as a whole, abundantly demonstrates that the much talked-about 'paradigm shift' in our field is no longer merely wishful thinking or hot air. It provides us with convincing examples of what some new directions and subjects of investigation may be, and what reading strategies we could apply to old, familiar texts. It is a volume that the next generation of students of modern Chinese literature will have to come to terms with."--Leo Ou-fan Lee, from the Postscript
List of contents
Foreword / Fredric Jameson
Introduction / Liu Kang and Xiaobing Tang
Part One Problematics of Subjectivity and Modernity
Subjectivity, Marxism, and Cultural Theory in China / Liu Kang
The Subjectivity of Literature Revisited / Liu Zaifu
Split China, or, The Historical/Imaginary: Toward a Theory of the Displacement of Subjectivity at the Margins of Modernity / Ching-kiu Stephen Chan
Narratives of Modern Selfhood: First-Person Fiction in May Fourth Literature / Lydia H. Liu
Female Subjectivity and Gender Relations: The Early Stories of Lu Yin and Bing Xin / Wendy Larson
Part Two Representation, Realism, and the Question of History
Ideologies of Realism in Modern China: The Hard Imperatives of Imported Theory / Theodore Huters
Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Decapitation / David D. W. Wang
Red Sorghum: Limits of Transgression / Tonglin Lu
Part Three Cultural Critique and Ideology
Narrative, Ideology, Subjectivity: Defining a Subversive Discourse in Chinese Reportage / Yingjin Zhang
Anxiety of Portraiture: Quest for/Questioning Ancestral Icons in Post-Mao China / Yuejin Wang
Resisting Writing / Li Tuo
The Function of New Theory: What Does It Mean to Talk about Postmodernism in China? / Xiaobing Tang
Postscript / Leo Ou-fan Lee
Index
Contributors
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