Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Rhetorics of Modernity and the Logics of the Fetish

Chapter 4 Desire and Disease: Bai Wei and the Literary Left of the 1930s

Chapter 5 What’s “Chinese” in Chinese Diasporic Literature?

Chapter 6 Toward a Theory of Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng Literature

Chapter 7 Modernity and Apocalypse in Chinese Novels from the End of the Twentieth Century

Chapter 8 A Cruel World: Boundary-Crossing and Exile in The Great Going Abroad

Chapter 9 Stay or Go: Li Guoxiu’s Ambiguous Answer to the Taiwan Question

Chapter 10 Tales of a Porous City: Public Residences and Private Streets in Taipei Films

Chapter 11 Reproducing the Self: Consumption, Imaginary, and Identity in Chinese Women’s Autobiographical Practice in the 1990s

Chapter 12 Urban Ethics: Modernity and the Morality of Everyday Life

Chapter 13 Capitalist and Enlightenment Values in Chinese Fiction of the 1990s: The Case of Yu Hua’s Blood Merchant