Peter Button, Ph.D. (2000) in East Asian Literature, Cornell University, is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at McGill University. He has published in Positions, Postcolonial Studies, and Philosophy East and West.

"This ambitious book is always engaging, often brilliant, and fantasically complex...[It] is essential reading for any scholar hoping to understand the discourse of aesthetics in modern China..."Thomas Moran, Middlebury College, MCLC Resource Center Publication (September 2011)"[...]a highly engaging study and a welcome addition to a number of important Western scholarly works on Chinese realism[...]not only makes for compelling reading, but it opens up the field of modern China studies to inquiries from other disciplines."Frederik Green, Macalester College, China Review International Vol. 16, No. 2, 2009

• Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Concept of Literature in China1. The Trials of Chinese Literary Realism2. Lu Xun's Ah Q as "Gruesome Hybrid"3. The Aesthetic Critique of Modernity in Chinese Marxism, New Criticism, and Adorno4. Global/Modern Figurations of the Type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman5. Aesthetics and Desire in Yang Mo's Song of YouthConclusion: Exemplarity in Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan's Hongyan: From White Terror to "Red Classic"

Peter Button, Ph.D. (2000) in East Asian Literature, Cornell University, is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at McGill University. He has published in Positions, Postcolonial Studies, and Philosophy East and West.

"This ambitious book is always engaging, often brilliant, and fantasically complex...[It] is essential reading for any scholar hoping to understand the discourse of aesthetics in modern China..."Thomas Moran, Middlebury College, MCLC Resource Center Publication (September 2011)"[...]a highly engaging study and a welcome addition to a number of important Western scholarly works on Chinese realism[...]not only makes for compelling reading, but it opens up the field of modern China studies to inquiries from other disciplines."Frederik Green, Macalester College, China Review International Vol. 16, No. 2, 2009

• Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Concept of Literature in China1. The Trials of Chinese Literary Realism2. Lu Xun's Ah Q as "Gruesome Hybrid"3. The Aesthetic Critique of Modernity in Chinese Marxism, New Criticism, and Adorno4. Global/Modern Figurations of the Type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman5. Aesthetics and Desire in Yang Mo's Song of YouthConclusion: Exemplarity in Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan's Hongyan: From White Terror to "Red Classic"

Peter Button, Ph.D. (2000) in East Asian Literature, Cornell University, is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at McGill University. He has published in Positions, Postcolonial Studies, and Philosophy East and West.

"This ambitious book is always engaging, often brilliant, and fantasically complex...[It] is essential reading for any scholar hoping to understand the discourse of aesthetics in modern China..."Thomas Moran, Middlebury College, MCLC Resource Center Publication (September 2011)"[...]a highly engaging study and a welcome addition to a number of important Western scholarly works on Chinese realism[...]not only makes for compelling reading, but it opens up the field of modern China studies to inquiries from other disciplines."Frederik Green, Macalester College, China Review International Vol. 16, No. 2, 2009

• Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Concept of Literature in China1. The Trials of Chinese Literary Realism2. Lu Xun's Ah Q as "Gruesome Hybrid"3. The Aesthetic Critique of Modernity in Chinese Marxism, New Criticism, and Adorno4. Global/Modern Figurations of the Type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman5. Aesthetics and Desire in Yang Mo's Song of YouthConclusion: Exemplarity in Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan's Hongyan: From White Terror to "Red Classic"