Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism, and Oppositional Politics

"Lu Tonglin surveys and studies the experimental fiction of the late 1980s in contemporary China. . . . This experimental fiction is of particular interest because it radically subverts socialist realism. . . . With its feminist perspective, this study throws new light on the way both experimental fiction and contemporary China can be explained." —Choice

• Introduction; 1. Revolution: hope without future or future without hope?; 2. Red Sorghum: limits of transgression; 3. Can Xue: what is so paranoid in her writings?; 4. Quest in time and space as a new history of ancient and modern Tibet; 5. Femininity and masculinity in Su Tong's trilogy; 6. Violence and cultural nihilism; Conclusion.