Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author of The Great Wall: A Cultural History. Andrea Bachner is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University.

• Introduction: The Limits of Wen (?) Part I: Structure1.1 Kirk Denton-Lu Xun, Returning Home, and May Fourth Modernity1.2 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 China1.5 CHEN Pingyuan-The Story of Literary History1.6 Andrea Bachner-The Secrets of Language: Chen Li's Sinographic Anagrams1.7 Michael Hill-On Not Knowing: Translation, Knowledge Work, and Modern Literature1.8 MEI Chia-ling-Voice and the Quest for Modernity in Chinese Literature1.9 Shelby Chan, Gilbert Fong-Hongkong-Speak: Cantonese and Rupert Chan's Translated Theater1.10 Xiaomei Chen-Singing "The Internationale": From the "Red Silk Road" to the Red Classics1.11 John Crespi-Beyond Satire: The Pictorial Imagination of Zhang Guangyu's 1945 Journey to the West in Cartoons1.12 Laikwan Pang-The Allegory of Time and Space: Tian Han's Historical Dramas in the Great Leap Forward Period1.13 YAN Lianke-An Examination of China's Censorship System1.14 Jie Li-"Are our drawers empty?": Nie Gannu's Dossier Literature1.15 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 Modernity2.2 Xiaojue Wang-Borders and Borderlands Narratives in Cold War China2.3 Xiaofei Tian-Hao Ran and the Cultural Revolution2.4 Matthew Fraleigh-At the Borders of Chinese Literature: Poetic Exchange in the Nineteenth-Century Sinosphere2.5 Kwok Kou Leonard Chan-Sense of Place and Urban Images: Reading Hong Kong in Hong Kong Poetry2.6 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 Taiwan2.8 Shuang Shen-Where the "Trans-Pacific" meets Chinese Literature2.9 Belinda Kong-Xiaolu Guo and the Contemporary Chinese Anglophone Novel2.10 Mark Bender-Poet of the Late Summer Corn: Aku Wuwu and Contemporary Yi Poetry2.11 JI Jin-Literary Translation and Modern Chinese Literature2.12 Chris Hamm-Genre in Modern Chinese Fiction: Righteous Heroes of Modern Times2.13 Mingwei Song-Representations of the Invisible: Chinese Science Fiction in the Twenty-First Century2.14 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 Encounters3.2 Jianmei Liu-Gao Xingjian: The Triumph of the Modern Zhuangzi3.3 Haun Saussy and GE Zhaoguang-Historiography in the Chinese Twentieth Century 3.4 Yingjin Zhang-Structure and Rupture in Literary History and Historiography3.5 Viren Murthy-Reading Lu Xun's Early Essays in Relation to Marxism3.6 WANG Hui-Intuition, Repetition, and Revolution: Six Moments in the Life of Ah Q3.7 Chaoyang Liao-From Shame to Freedom: Undoing Spectral Identity in Li Ang's Seeing Ghosts3.8 Ban Wang-Passion and Politics in Revolution: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Ding Ling3.9 Tze-lan Sang-Eileen Chang and the Genius Art of Failure3.10 Eng Kiong (EK) Tan-From Exile to Queer Homecoming: Chen Xue's A Wife's Diary3.11 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 Taxonomy3.13 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

Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author of The Great Wall: A Cultural History. Andrea Bachner is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University.

• Introduction: The Limits of Wen (?) Part I: Structure1.1 Kirk Denton-Lu Xun, Returning Home, and May Fourth Modernity1.2 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 China1.5 CHEN Pingyuan-The Story of Literary History1.6 Andrea Bachner-The Secrets of Language: Chen Li's Sinographic Anagrams1.7 Michael Hill-On Not Knowing: Translation, Knowledge Work, and Modern Literature1.8 MEI Chia-ling-Voice and the Quest for Modernity in Chinese Literature1.9 Shelby Chan, Gilbert Fong-Hongkong-Speak: Cantonese and Rupert Chan's Translated Theater1.10 Xiaomei Chen-Singing "The Internationale": From the "Red Silk Road" to the Red Classics1.11 John Crespi-Beyond Satire: The Pictorial Imagination of Zhang Guangyu's 1945 Journey to the West in Cartoons1.12 Laikwan Pang-The Allegory of Time and Space: Tian Han's Historical Dramas in the Great Leap Forward Period1.13 YAN Lianke-An Examination of China's Censorship System1.14 Jie Li-"Are our drawers empty?": Nie Gannu's Dossier Literature1.15 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 Modernity2.2 Xiaojue Wang-Borders and Borderlands Narratives in Cold War China2.3 Xiaofei Tian-Hao Ran and the Cultural Revolution2.4 Matthew Fraleigh-At the Borders of Chinese Literature: Poetic Exchange in the Nineteenth-Century Sinosphere2.5 Kwok Kou Leonard Chan-Sense of Place and Urban Images: Reading Hong Kong in Hong Kong Poetry2.6 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 Taiwan2.8 Shuang Shen-Where the "Trans-Pacific" meets Chinese Literature2.9 Belinda Kong-Xiaolu Guo and the Contemporary Chinese Anglophone Novel2.10 Mark Bender-Poet of the Late Summer Corn: Aku Wuwu and Contemporary Yi Poetry2.11 JI Jin-Literary Translation and Modern Chinese Literature2.12 Chris Hamm-Genre in Modern Chinese Fiction: Righteous Heroes of Modern Times2.13 Mingwei Song-Representations of the Invisible: Chinese Science Fiction in the Twenty-First Century2.14 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 Encounters3.2 Jianmei Liu-Gao Xingjian: The Triumph of the Modern Zhuangzi3.3 Haun Saussy and GE Zhaoguang-Historiography in the Chinese Twentieth Century 3.4 Yingjin Zhang-Structure and Rupture in Literary History and Historiography3.5 Viren Murthy-Reading Lu Xun's Early Essays in Relation to Marxism3.6 WANG Hui-Intuition, Repetition, and Revolution: Six Moments in the Life of Ah Q3.7 Chaoyang Liao-From Shame to Freedom: Undoing Spectral Identity in Li Ang's Seeing Ghosts3.8 Ban Wang-Passion and Politics in Revolution: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Ding Ling3.9 Tze-lan Sang-Eileen Chang and the Genius Art of Failure3.10 Eng Kiong (EK) Tan-From Exile to Queer Homecoming: Chen Xue's A Wife's Diary3.11 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 Taxonomy3.13 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

Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author of The Great Wall: A Cultural History. Andrea Bachner is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University.

• Introduction: The Limits of Wen (?) Part I: Structure1.1 Kirk Denton-Lu Xun, Returning Home, and May Fourth Modernity1.2 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 China1.5 CHEN Pingyuan-The Story of Literary History1.6 Andrea Bachner-The Secrets of Language: Chen Li's Sinographic Anagrams1.7 Michael Hill-On Not Knowing: Translation, Knowledge Work, and Modern Literature1.8 MEI Chia-ling-Voice and the Quest for Modernity in Chinese Literature1.9 Shelby Chan, Gilbert Fong-Hongkong-Speak: Cantonese and Rupert Chan's Translated Theater1.10 Xiaomei Chen-Singing "The Internationale": From the "Red Silk Road" to the Red Classics1.11 John Crespi-Beyond Satire: The Pictorial Imagination of Zhang Guangyu's 1945 Journey to the West in Cartoons1.12 Laikwan Pang-The Allegory of Time and Space: Tian Han's Historical Dramas in the Great Leap Forward Period1.13 YAN Lianke-An Examination of China's Censorship System1.14 Jie Li-"Are our drawers empty?": Nie Gannu's Dossier Literature1.15 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 Modernity2.2 Xiaojue Wang-Borders and Borderlands Narratives in Cold War China2.3 Xiaofei Tian-Hao Ran and the Cultural Revolution2.4 Matthew Fraleigh-At the Borders of Chinese Literature: Poetic Exchange in the Nineteenth-Century Sinosphere2.5 Kwok Kou Leonard Chan-Sense of Place and Urban Images: Reading Hong Kong in Hong Kong Poetry2.6 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 Taiwan2.8 Shuang Shen-Where the "Trans-Pacific" meets Chinese Literature2.9 Belinda Kong-Xiaolu Guo and the Contemporary Chinese Anglophone Novel2.10 Mark Bender-Poet of the Late Summer Corn: Aku Wuwu and Contemporary Yi Poetry2.11 JI Jin-Literary Translation and Modern Chinese Literature2.12 Chris Hamm-Genre in Modern Chinese Fiction: Righteous Heroes of Modern Times2.13 Mingwei Song-Representations of the Invisible: Chinese Science Fiction in the Twenty-First Century2.14 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 Encounters3.2 Jianmei Liu-Gao Xingjian: The Triumph of the Modern Zhuangzi3.3 Haun Saussy and GE Zhaoguang-Historiography in the Chinese Twentieth Century 3.4 Yingjin Zhang-Structure and Rupture in Literary History and Historiography3.5 Viren Murthy-Reading Lu Xun's Early Essays in Relation to Marxism3.6 WANG Hui-Intuition, Repetition, and Revolution: Six Moments in the Life of Ah Q3.7 Chaoyang Liao-From Shame to Freedom: Undoing Spectral Identity in Li Ang's Seeing Ghosts3.8 Ban Wang-Passion and Politics in Revolution: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Ding Ling3.9 Tze-lan Sang-Eileen Chang and the Genius Art of Failure3.10 Eng Kiong (EK) Tan-From Exile to Queer Homecoming: Chen Xue's A Wife's Diary3.11 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 Taxonomy3.13 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