Chi Pang-Yuan, Wang Der-Wei D. (eds.) Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: a critical survey

Indiana University Press, 2000. — xlvi+332 p. — ISBN 0-253-33710-0.This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the enunciative endeavors, ranging from ideological treatises to avant-garde experiments, that inform the polyphonic discourse of Chinese cultural politics; (3) to observe the historical factors that enacted the interplay of literary (post)modernities across the Chinese communities in the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas.Preface by Pang-yuan Chi
Introduction by David Der-wei Wang
Farewell to the Gods
Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory’s Fin-de-siècle Struggle Zaifu LiuTaiwan Literature, 1945–1999 Pang-yuan Chi
Colonialism, the Cold War Era, and Marginal Space
The Existential Condition of Five Decades of Hong Kong Literature William Tay
Reinventing national History
Communist and Anti-Communist Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century David Der-wei Wang
The School and the Hospital
On the Logics of Socialist Realism Su Wei
Modernism and its Discontents
Taiwan Literature in the 1960s Ko Ch’ing-ming
Beyond “Nativist Realism”
Taiwan Fiction in the 1970s and 1980s Yang Chao
Searching for Roots
Anticultural Return in Mainland Chinese Literature of the 1980s Li Qingxi
Re-membering the Cultural Revolution
Chinese Avant-garde Literature of the 1980s Wu Liang
Resistance to Modernity
Reflections on Mainland Chinese Literary Criticism in the 1980s Li Tuo
Feminism and Female Taiwan Writers Chung Ling
Breaking Open
Chinese Women’s Writing in the Late 1980s and 1990s Jingyuan Zhang
The Cultural Imaginary of a City
Reading Hong Kong Through Xi Xi Stephen C. K. Chan
Answering the Question
What Is Chinese Postmodernism/Post-Mao-Dengism? Xiaobin Yang
Death of the Poet
Poetry and Society in Contemporary China and Taiwan Michelle YehA Bibliographic Survey of Publications on Chinese Literature in Translation from 1949 to 1999 Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Contributors
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