Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan.

Literary Culture in Taiwan is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Taiwan's literary development. -- Rosemary Haddon The China Journal The most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of contemporary chinese literature available to date in English -- Christopher Lupke China Review International

• 1. Academic Contexts and Conceptual Frameworks 2. Political and Market Factors in the Literary Field 3. Soft-Authoritarian Rule and the Mainstream Position 4. The Modernist Trend and Aestheticization of the "China Trope" in Mainstream Literature 5. Localist Position as a Product of Social Opposition 6. Fukan-Based Literary Culture and Middle-Class Fiction 7. High Culture Aspirations and Transformations of Mainstream Fiction 8. New Developments in the Post-Martial Law Period

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan.

Literary Culture in Taiwan is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Taiwan's literary development. -- Rosemary Haddon The China Journal The most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of contemporary chinese literature available to date in English -- Christopher Lupke China Review International

• 1. Academic Contexts and Conceptual Frameworks 2. Political and Market Factors in the Literary Field 3. Soft-Authoritarian Rule and the Mainstream Position 4. The Modernist Trend and Aestheticization of the "China Trope" in Mainstream Literature 5. Localist Position as a Product of Social Opposition 6. Fukan-Based Literary Culture and Middle-Class Fiction 7. High Culture Aspirations and Transformations of Mainstream Fiction 8. New Developments in the Post-Martial Law Period

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan.

Literary Culture in Taiwan is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Taiwan's literary development. -- Rosemary Haddon The China Journal The most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of contemporary chinese literature available to date in English -- Christopher Lupke China Review International

• 1. Academic Contexts and Conceptual Frameworks 2. Political and Market Factors in the Literary Field 3. Soft-Authoritarian Rule and the Mainstream Position 4. The Modernist Trend and Aestheticization of the "China Trope" in Mainstream Literature 5. Localist Position as a Product of Social Opposition 6. Fukan-Based Literary Culture and Middle-Class Fiction 7. High Culture Aspirations and Transformations of Mainstream Fiction 8. New Developments in the Post-Martial Law Period