Liu Kang is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese at Pennsylvania State University. Xiaobing Tang, Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado, has translated Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism and Cultural Theories into Chinese.

"This present volume, as a whole, abundantly demonstrates that the much talked-about 'paradigm shift' in our field is no longer merely wishful thinking or hot air. It provides us with convincing examples of what some new directions and subjects of investigation may be, and what reading strategies we could apply to old, familiar texts. It is a volume that the next generation of students of modern Chinese literature will have to come to terms with."-Leo Ou-fan Lee, from the Postscript

• Foreword / Fredric Jameson Introduction / Liu Kang and Xiaobing Tang Part One Problematics of Subjectivity and Modernity Subjectivity, Marxism, and Cultural Theory in China / Liu Kang The Subjectivity of Literature Revisited / Liu Zaifu Split China, or, The Historical/Imaginary: Toward a Theory of the Displacement of Subjectivity at the Margins of Modernity / Ching-kiu Stephen Chan Narratives of Modern Selfhood: First-Person Fiction in May Fourth Literature / Lydia H. Liu Female Subjectivity and Gender Relations: The Early Stories of Lu Yin and Bing Xin / Wendy Larson Part Two Representation, Realism, and the Question of History Ideologies of Realism in Modern China: The Hard Imperatives of Imported Theory / Theodore Huters Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Decapitation / David D. W. Wang Red Sorghum: Limits of Transgression / Tonglin Lu Part Three Cultural Critique and Ideology Narrative, Ideology, Subjectivity: Defining a Subversive Discourse in Chinese Reportage / Yingjin Zhang Anxiety of Portraiture: Quest for/Questioning Ancestral Icons in Post-Mao China / Yuejin Wang Resisting Writing / Li Tuo The Function of New Theory: What Does It Mean to Talk about Postmodernism in China? / Xiaobing Tang Postscript / Leo Ou-fan Lee Index Contributors

Liu Kang is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese at Pennsylvania State University. Xiaobing Tang, Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado, has translated Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism and Cultural Theories into Chinese.

"This present volume, as a whole, abundantly demonstrates that the much talked-about 'paradigm shift' in our field is no longer merely wishful thinking or hot air. It provides us with convincing examples of what some new directions and subjects of investigation may be, and what reading strategies we could apply to old, familiar texts. It is a volume that the next generation of students of modern Chinese literature will have to come to terms with."-Leo Ou-fan Lee, from the Postscript

• Foreword / Fredric Jameson Introduction / Liu Kang and Xiaobing Tang Part One Problematics of Subjectivity and Modernity Subjectivity, Marxism, and Cultural Theory in China / Liu Kang The Subjectivity of Literature Revisited / Liu Zaifu Split China, or, The Historical/Imaginary: Toward a Theory of the Displacement of Subjectivity at the Margins of Modernity / Ching-kiu Stephen Chan Narratives of Modern Selfhood: First-Person Fiction in May Fourth Literature / Lydia H. Liu Female Subjectivity and Gender Relations: The Early Stories of Lu Yin and Bing Xin / Wendy Larson Part Two Representation, Realism, and the Question of History Ideologies of Realism in Modern China: The Hard Imperatives of Imported Theory / Theodore Huters Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Decapitation / David D. W. Wang Red Sorghum: Limits of Transgression / Tonglin Lu Part Three Cultural Critique and Ideology Narrative, Ideology, Subjectivity: Defining a Subversive Discourse in Chinese Reportage / Yingjin Zhang Anxiety of Portraiture: Quest for/Questioning Ancestral Icons in Post-Mao China / Yuejin Wang Resisting Writing / Li Tuo The Function of New Theory: What Does It Mean to Talk about Postmodernism in China? / Xiaobing Tang Postscript / Leo Ou-fan Lee Index Contributors

Liu Kang is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese at Pennsylvania State University. Xiaobing Tang, Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado, has translated Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism and Cultural Theories into Chinese.

"This present volume, as a whole, abundantly demonstrates that the much talked-about 'paradigm shift' in our field is no longer merely wishful thinking or hot air. It provides us with convincing examples of what some new directions and subjects of investigation may be, and what reading strategies we could apply to old, familiar texts. It is a volume that the next generation of students of modern Chinese literature will have to come to terms with."-Leo Ou-fan Lee, from the Postscript

• Foreword / Fredric Jameson Introduction / Liu Kang and Xiaobing Tang Part One Problematics of Subjectivity and Modernity Subjectivity, Marxism, and Cultural Theory in China / Liu Kang The Subjectivity of Literature Revisited / Liu Zaifu Split China, or, The Historical/Imaginary: Toward a Theory of the Displacement of Subjectivity at the Margins of Modernity / Ching-kiu Stephen Chan Narratives of Modern Selfhood: First-Person Fiction in May Fourth Literature / Lydia H. Liu Female Subjectivity and Gender Relations: The Early Stories of Lu Yin and Bing Xin / Wendy Larson Part Two Representation, Realism, and the Question of History Ideologies of Realism in Modern China: The Hard Imperatives of Imported Theory / Theodore Huters Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Decapitation / David D. W. Wang Red Sorghum: Limits of Transgression / Tonglin Lu Part Three Cultural Critique and Ideology Narrative, Ideology, Subjectivity: Defining a Subversive Discourse in Chinese Reportage / Yingjin Zhang Anxiety of Portraiture: Quest for/Questioning Ancestral Icons in Post-Mao China / Yuejin Wang Resisting Writing / Li Tuo The Function of New Theory: What Does It Mean to Talk about Postmodernism in China? / Xiaobing Tang Postscript / Leo Ou-fan Lee Index Contributors