The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the effects of censorship, the representation of the Chinese diaspora, the rise and meaning of Sinophone literature, and the role of different media in the development of literature. Subsequent essays focus on authors, their works, and the schools with which they were aligned, featuring key names, titles, and terms in English and in Chinese characters. Woven throughout are pieces on late Qing fiction, popular entertainment fiction, martial arts fiction, experimental theater, post-Mao avant-garde poetry, post–martial law fiction from Taiwan, contemporary genre fiction from China, and recent Internet literature. The volume includes essays on such authors as Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, Jin Yong, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Gao Xingjian, and Yan Lianke. Both a teaching tool and a go-to research companion, this volume is a one-of-a-kind resource for mastering modern literature in the Chinese-speaking world.
- Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Major Historical Events
- Part I. Thematic Essays
- 1. Historical Overview, by Kirk A. Denton
- 2. Modern Chinese Literature as an Institution: Canon and Literary History, by Yingjin Zhang
- 3. Language and Literary Form, by Charles Laughlin
- 4. Literary Communities and the Production of Literature, by Michel Hockx
- 5. Between Tradition and Modernity: Contested Classical Poetry, by Shengqing Wu
- 6. Diaspora in Modern Chinese Literature, by Shuyu Kong
- 7. Sinophone Literature, by Brian Bernards
- 8. Chinese Literature and Film Adaptation, by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
- Part II. Authors, Works, Schools
- 9. The Late Qing Poetry Revolution: Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian, and Chinese Literary Modernity", by Jianhua Chen
- 10. The Uses of Fiction: Liang Qichao and His Contemporaries, by Alexander DesForges
- 11. Late Qing Fiction, by Ying Hu
- 12. Zhou Shoujuan’s Love Stories and Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies Fiction, by Jianhua Chen
- 13. Form and Reform: New Poetry and the Crescent Moon Society, by John Crespi
- 14. Reconsidering the Origins of Modern Chinese Women’s Writing, by Amy Dooling
- 15. The Madman That Was Ah Q: Tradition and Modernity in Lu Xun’s Fiction, by Ann Huss
- 16. Romantic Sentiment and the Problem of the Subject: Yu Dafu, by Kirk A. Denton
- 17. Feminism and Revolution: The Work and Life of Ding Ling, by Jingyuan Zhang
- 18. The Debate on Revolutionary Literature, by Charles Laughlin
- 19. Mao Dun, the Modern Novel, and the Representation of Women, by Hilary Chung
- 20. Ba Jin’s Family: Fiction, Representation, and Relevance, by Nicholas Kaldis
- 21. Chinese Modernism: The New Sensationists, by Steven L. Riep
- 22. Shen Congwen and Imagined Native Communities, by Jeffrey Kinkley
- 23. Xiao Hong’s Field of Life and Death, by Amy Dooling
- 24. Performing the Nation: Chinese Drama and Theater, by Xiaomei Chen
- 25. Cao Yu and Thunderstorm, by Jonathan Nobel
- 26. The Reluctant Nihilism of Lao She’s Rickshaw, by Thomas Moran
- 27. Eileen Chang and Alternative Wartime Narrative, by Nicole Huang
- 28. Literature and Politics: Mao Zedong’s “Yan’an Talks” and Party Rectification, by Kirk A. Denton
- 29. Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang: A Literary Marriage, by Christopher Rea
- 30. Revolutionary Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism: The Song of Youth, by Ban Wang
- 31. The Hundred Flowers: Qin Zhaoyang, Wang Meng, and Liu Binyan, by Richard King
- 32. Cold War Fiction from Taiwan and the Modernists, by Christopher Lupke
- 33. Nativism and Localism in Taiwanese Literature, by Christopher Lupke
- 34. The Cultural Revolution Model Theater, by Di Bai
- 35. Martial-Arts Fiction and Jin Yong, by John Christopher Hamm
- 36. Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao, by Miriam Lang
- 37. Misty Poetry, by Michelle Yeh
- 38. Scar Literature and the Memory of Trauma, by Sabina Knight
- 39. Culture Against Politics: Roots-Seeking Literature, by Mark Leenhouts
- 40. Mo Yan, by Yomi Braester
- 41. Avant-Garde Fiction in Post-Mao China, by Andrew F. Jones
- 42. Contemporary Experimental Theaters in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, by Rossella Ferrari
- 43. Modern Poetry of Taiwan, by Michelle Yeh
- 44. Same-Sex Love in Recent Chinese Literature, by Thomas Moran
- 45. Contemporary Urban Fiction: Rewriting the City, by Robin Visser and Jie Lu
- 46. Xi Xi and Tales of Hong Kong, by Daisy S. Y. Ng
- 47. Writing Taiwan’s Fin-de-Siècle Splendor: Zhu Tianwen and Zhu Tianxin, by Lingchei Letty Chen
- 48. Wang Anyi, by Lingzhen Wang
- 49. Wang Shuo, by Jonathan Noble
- 50. Commercialization of Literature in the Post-Mao Era, by Zhen Zhang
- 51. Popular Genre Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy, by Mingwei Song
- 52. Word and Image: Gao Xingjian, by Mabel Lee
- 53. Hong Kong Voices: Literature from the Late Twentieth Century to the New Millennium, by Esther M. K. Cheung
- 54. Avant-Garde Poetry in China Since the 1980s, by Maghiel van Crevel
- 55. Taiwan Literature in the Post–Martial Law Era, by Michael Berry
- 56. Speaking from the Margins: Yan Lianke, by Carlos Rojas
- 57. Internet Literature: From YY to MOOC, by Heather Inwood
- Index
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