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Volume 35, Number 1 (Summer 2023)
Articles
- Note from the Editors
Natascha Gentz and Christopher Rosenmeier - Polyphonic Poetics: Reading Yang Shaoping’s Pidgin Bamboo Branch Lyrics
Yuqing LIU - Minor Literature as a Vital Component of World Literature: Lu Xun’s Translation of Bulgarian Literature via German Sources
Xiaolu MA - The Sensual Surplus of History: Cao Hanmei’s Pictorial Adaptations of Jin Ping Mei in Wartime China
Dingru HUANG - Other Worlds: A Genealogy from Lu Yao’s Capitalist Realism to Maoni’s Internet Literature
Dylan SUHER - Teahouse or Not? Meng Jinghui’s Avant-garde Version of Lao She’s Classic Play [FULL-TEXT PDF]
Barbara LEONESI - The Changing Face of Mao: From Texing Actor to Star Casting in Chinese Main Melody Films
Li YANG - The Overbearing CEO: Cinderella Fantasy and Chinese-style Neoliberal Femininity
Geng SONG
Volume 34, Number 2 (Winter 2022)
Articles
- Note from the Editors
Natascha Gentz and Christopher Rosenmeier - Beyond Party Politics? Visitors and Meaning-Making in the National Museum of Taiwan Literature
Emily GRAF - The Making of Small Literature as World Literature: Taiwanese Writer Wu Ming-Yi
Kuei-fen CHIU - “World Literature” between Transcultural Poetics and Colonial Politics: Yang Chichang, Le Moulin, and Surrealism in Taiwan
Fangdai CHEN - To Love and Freedom: Post-martial Law Subjectivity in Detention and Your Name Engraved Herein
Chialan Sharon WANG - From the “Taiwanese Dream” to an Alien Land: The Mainland Writer Zhang Yiwei’s Literary Narratives of Taiwan
Phyllis Yu-ting HUANG - Queer Remains: Mourning and Inheritance in Lo Yi-chin’s Banishing Sorrow
Keyun TIAN - Fanning Out Possibilities: Dung Kai-cheung and the Multiplicities of Time
Meng WU
Volume 34, Number 1 (Summer 2022)
Articles
- Note from the Editors (pdf)
- Basic Chinese: Cognitive Management, Communication Engineering, and Mass Literacy in China
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu - Interpreting Mythorealism: Disenchanted Shijing and Spiritual Crisis in Yan Lianke’s Ballad, Hymn, Ode
Haiyan Xie - Redefining Borders in Contemporary Chinese Theater: Paper Tiger Theater Studio Performing Kafka’s “The Great Wall”
Andreea Chirita - Reconfiguring History through Literature: Cultural Memory and Mo Yan’s Historical Play Our Jing Ke
Yue Zhang - Wrestling with Tradition: Early Chinese Suffragettes and the Modern Remodeling of the Shrew Trope
Shu Yang - The Music of the Machine: A Ying, International Constructivism, and Sonic Modernity in Chinese
Benjamin Kindler - The Myth of Shangri-La and Its Counter-discourses: (Anti-)Utopian Representations of China’s Southwest
Jin Hao
Volume 33, Number 2 (Fall 2021)
Articles
- Editor’s Note (pdf)
- “Distant Reading” and the Pull of Literary Abstraction in New Culture China
Anatoly Detwyler - Abstract Painting: The Formation of New Aesthetic in Post-Mao China
Yiqing Li - Can a Chinese Subaltern Speak? A Study on Writings about Female Aging in China
Yuanhang Liu and Michael Seats - Xi Xi’s Playful Image-Texts: Ekphrasis, Parergon, and the Concept of Toy
Xiaofan Amy Li - The Feeling of Ling (the Numinous): Human-Animal Relations in Three Sinophone Short Stories
Jannis Jizhou Chen - The Lure of Diaspora: Diaspora Discourse, Accented Style, and Sinophone Malaysian Culture
Wai-Siam Hee
Volume 33, Number 1 (Spring 2021)
Articles
- Editor’s Note (pdf)
- Symbiosis: Department Store Roof Gardens and Their Appropriation by Lower-Class Urban Women, 1917–1948
Bozhou Men - Inscribing the Cultural Revolution in the Everyday: Lü Da, Wen Wei Po, and the Question of Hong Kong Literary History
Shuk Man Leung - Poetic Approach and Yi-ness: Poets and Ethnic Identity Construction in China
Qiu Jing - Left Melancholy: Chen Yingzhen, Wang Anyi, and the Desire for Utopia in the Postrevolutionary Era
Hang Tu - Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem, Travel Writing, and the Myth of Mongolian Pastoralism
Philip P. Marzluf - Alternative Modernity, Wartime Romanticism, and Ideologies of Fiction in Occupied China (1937–1945)
Kejun Xu - Homecoming: Poetry as Relational Space in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Mei Yang
Volume 32, Number 2 (Fall 2020)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Rhythm Revolution: How Music “Modernized” China (1903–1937)
Xiangjun Feng - Labor Romanticism against Modernity: The Creation Society as Socialist Avant-Garde
Benjamin Kindler - “But in What Way Is It Ours?”: Guo Songfen and the Question of Homeland
Li-ping Chen - Playing with the Canon: The Uncanny Pleasure of Intertextuality in the Works of Sinophone Thai writers Sima Gong and Zeng Xin
Rebecca Ehrenwirth - Steampunk, Zombie Apocalypse, and Homoerotic Romance: Re-writing Revolution-Plus-Love in Contemporary China
Zhange Ni - Cannibal Labyrinth: Narrative, Intertextuality, and Politics of Cannibalism in Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine
Tiffany Yun-chu Tsai - Exhibiting Knowledge, Extending Network: Translation Bricolage Columns of the Magazines of the China Book Company, 1913–1916
Michelle Jia Ye
Volume 32, Number 1 (Spring 2020)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- The Temporality of Poverty: Realism in Lao She’s Camel Xiangzi
Keru Cai - Bound Feet Travel: Revisualizing Footbinding in John Fryer’s Fiction Contest
Yingying Huang - Cinderella Stories Retold: The Geopolitics of Taiwanese Idol Dramas
Shaohua Guo - The Infinite Collection and the Mortal Collector: Lu Xun, Antique Market Revolutionary
Guangchen Chen - Printing the Voice of the People: Folksong Weekly and the Heterogeneity of Chinese Folk Culture
Mark McConaghy - Exclamation Points and Elliptical Hope: Reading Wild Grass against Modern Chinese Punctuation Reform
Xiaoyu Xia - Site: The Impossibility of Remembering the Past at Nanjing
Zhiyi Yang
Volume 31, Number 2 (Fall 2019)
Special Issue on Reportage and its Contemporary Variations
Guest Editors Charles Laughlin and Li Guo
Articles
- Reportage and Its Contemporary Variations: An Introduction (pdf download)
Charles Laughlin and Li Guo - Reportage, Ethnicity, and Feminine Subjectivities: Ai Wu’s Journey to the South and Its “Sequels”
Jie Guo - Soil and Scroll: The Agrarian Origin of a Cold War Documentary Avant Garde
Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang - “Chanting Slogans with Muted Voice”: Lan Bozhou’s “Song of the Covered Wagon” and Untimely Leftist Reportage in Taiwan
Po-hsi Chen - Perseverance through Aftershocks: Epistephilia in Chinese Reportage and Independent Documentary
Yingjin Zhang - From the Margins to the Hearth: A Study of Xu Gang’s Environmental Reportage
Li Guo - Images of Aging and the Aesthetic of Actuality in Chinese Film: Reportage, Documentary, and the Art of the Real
Charles Laughlin - The “Liang Village Series”: Postsocialist Dynamics of Liang Hong’s Rural Investigation
Harlan Chambers
Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2019)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Imagining Utopia: Reading Ou Ning’s The Bishan Commune: How to Start Your Own Utopia
Mai Corlin - Can’t Get There from Here: Deictic Will and the Mapped Life in Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma
Shiamin Kwa - How Don Juan Came to Taiwan: Fictional Worlds in Ye Shitao’s Early Postwar Short Stories
Táňa Dluhošová - Work through Power, Discourse, and Subject Formation: Wang Xiaobo’s Contributions to the Chinese Intellectual Debate
Gengsong Gao - Author as Performer: The Making of Authorship in The Man behind the Book
Li-fen Chen - In Search of the City of Light: Chinese Creative Communities and the Myth of Interwar Paris
Nicolai Volland - Between Historicity and Fictionality: Xiang Kairan, Martial Arts Fiction, and Chinese Narrative Tradition
Iris Ma
Volume 30, Number 2 (Fall 2018)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- More than Just Entertaining: Cinematic Containment and Asia’s Cold War in Hong Kong, 1949–1959
Poshek Fu - In Defense of Hong Kong: The Critical Reception of Milkyway Image Films
Yi Sun - Revolutionary Illumination: Stage Lighting, Politics, and Play in 1930s Shanghai Theater
Tarryn Chun - “One Part in Concert, and One Part Repellence:” Liu Waitong, Cao Shuying, and the Question of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Sinophones
Lucas Klein - Expo Fantasies: Time, Space, and the Transnational Vision in Three Late Qing Texts
Yingying Huang - Threshold Nationhood: Huang Guliu’s The Story of Shrimp-ball, Chinese Latinization, and Topolect Literature
Lorraine Wong - Outcast, Autocrat, Believer: The Making of a Radical in the Late Qing Biographies of Zheng Chenggong
Keren He
Volume 30, Number 1 (Spring 2018)
Special Issue: Chinese Literature as World Literature, guest edited by Yingjin Zhang and Kuei-fen Chiu
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Introduction: Chinese Worlds of World Literature [click to download a pdf copy]
Yingjin Zhang - “Worlding” World Literature from the Literary Periphery: Four Taiwanese Models
Kuei-fen Chiu - A World Republic of Southern [Sinophone] Letters
Carlos Rojas - Indigeneity, Map-Mindedness, and World-Literary Cartography: The Poetics and Politics of Li Yongping’s Transregional Chinese Literary Production
Cheow Thia Chan - Capitalizing China: Writing Autography into World Literature
Jun Lei - From Nobel to Hugo: Reading Chinese Science Fiction as World Literature
Angie Chau - Totalitarian Ordinariness: The Chinese Epidemic Novel as World Literature
Belinda Kong - Beyond National Allegory: Mo Yan’s Fiction as World Literature
Hangping Xu
Volume 29, Number 2 (Fall 2017)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Estranging Realism in Chinese Science Fiction: Hybridity and Environmentalism in Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide
Cara Healey - Ghostly Haunting and Moral Interrogation in Wang Xiaoshuai’s Red Amnesia
Yanjie Wang - Fictional Dictionaries: Power and Philosophy of Language in Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Astrid Møller-Olsen - What Is a Reader? Participation and Intertextuality in Hand-Copied Entertainment Fiction from the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Lena Henningsen - Pursuing the Special Agent—Adaptation of Mao Dun’s Fushi and the Politics of Representing Espionage
Ying Du - Quote Unquote Language Reform: New-Style Punctuation and the Horizontalization of Chinese
Thomas S. Mullaney
Volume 29, Number 1 (Spring 2017)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Defining the Modern Wenren and the Role of the White Female Body in Modern Chinese Literature and Art
Angie Chau - Socialist Modernity in the Wasteland: Changing Representations of the Female Tractor Driver in China, 1949–1964
Daisy Yan Du - After the Commune: Postsocialist Collectivity, the Commodity, and Mo Yan’s People
Darwin H. Tsen - “Seizing the Battlefield” in the Face of “Guerrilla Vending”: The Struggle over the Dissemination of Lianhuanhua, 1949 to 1956
Rebecca Scott - Cybertext: a Topology of Reading
Tong King Lee - A Lu Xun Publishing Project: Translation as History
Mark Gamsa - The Southern Film Corporation, Opera Films, and the PRC’s Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War Asia, 1950s and 1960s
Lanjun Xu
Volume 28, Number 2 (Fall 2016)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Portrait of the Artist as a Schoolboy: Bao Tianxiao’s Creative Interventions in Little Xin’s School Journal
Maria Franca Sibau - The Making of Transcultural Lyricism in Su Manshu’s Fiction
Jane Qian Liu - The Appeal of Style: Han Han and Microcultural Contention in Digital China
Shaohua Guo - The “Symbol of Angst” and the Poetics of Remembrance: Lu Xun and Chinese Literary Modernity
Wenjin Cui - The Apotheosis of Montage: The Videomosaic Gaze of The Man with the Compound Eyes as Postmodern Ecological Sublime
Darryl Sterk - Dao and Reconstruction of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Chinese Literary and Mass Media Products
Zuyan Zhou - A Buddhist Perspective: Trauma and Reincarnation in Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Yiju Huang
Volume 28, Number 1 (Spring 2016)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- The Female Chef and the Nation: Zeng Yi’s Zongkui lu (Records from the kitchen)
Jin Feng - Insulting Pictures: The Thief of Bagdad in Shanghai
Jessica Ka Yee Chan - Chronicle of Du Lala’s Promotion: Exemplary Literature, the Middle Class, and the Socialist Market
Marco Fumian - Transmediating Kinesthesia: Wu Xiaobang and Modern Dance in China, 1929-1939
Nan Ma - The Tower of Going Astray: The Paradox of Liu Yazi’s Lyric Classicism
Zhiyi Yang - From “Ornament” to “Literature”: An Uncertain Substitution in Nineteenth-Twentieth Century China
Pablo Ariel Blitstein
Volume 27, Number 2 (Fall 2015): Special Issue on Hong Shen 洪深 and the Modern Mediasphere in Republican-Era China, guest edited by Siyuan Liu and Xiaomei Chen
Articles
- Hong Shen and the Modern Mediasphere in Republican-Era China: An Introduction [click to download a pdf copy]
Siyuan Liu - Hong Shen in the Popular Press, 1924–1949
Xuelei Huang - When S/He Is Not Nora: Hong Shen, Cosmopolitan Intellectuals, and Chinese Theaters in 1910s China and America
Man He - Hong Shen and Adaptation of Western Plays in Modern Chinese Theater
Siyuan Liu - Hong Shen and the “Natural Death” of Female Impersonation: Rethinking the History of Gender-appropriate Performance
Megan Ammirati - Reading Hong Shen Intermedially
Liang Luo - The Art of Control: Hong Shen, Behavioral Psychology, and the Technics of Social Effects
Weihong Bao
Volume 27, Number 1 (Spring 2015)
Articles
- Performing the Revolutionary: Lu Xun and the Meiji Discourse on Masculinity
Eileen J. Cheng - The Ethical Turn in the Production and Reception of New Chinese-Language Documentary Films
Kuei-fen Chiu - New Script and a New “Madman’s Diary”
Michael Gibbs Hill - Nana’s Textbook: Building a National Literature in Chinese Middle School
Joseph R. Allen - “Natural” Curves: Breast-Binding and Changing Aesthetics of the Female Body in China of the Early Twentieth Century
Jun Lei - Slashing Three Kingdoms: A Case Study in Fan Production on the Chinese Web
Xiaofei Tian
Volume 26, Number 2 (Fall 2014)
Articles
- Meaningful Mobility and the Ties That Bind: 1988 as Postsocialist Road Story
Laurence Coderre - “Diary of a Madwoman” Traversing the Diaspora: Rewriting Lu Xun in Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach
Carolyn FitzGerald - Shanghaiing the Press Gang: The Maoist Regimentation of the Shanghai Popular Publishing Industry in the Early PRC (1949–1956)
Ying Du - Performativity in Colonial Taiwan: From Riā to Madman in Wu Zhuoliu’s Ko Shimei
Makiko Mori - The Anxiety of Fiction: Reexamining Lao She’s Early Novels
Carles Prado-Fonts
Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2014)
Articles
- From Diasporic Nationalism to Transcolonial Consciousness: Lao She’s Singaporean Satire, Little Po’s Birthday
Brian Bernards - Bai Niu and the Women of Quyi: Appropriating Metaphysical Femininity and Reclaiming the Feminine Voice in Republican China
Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson - Toward a Material Poetics in Chinese: Text, Translation, and Technology in the Works of Chen Li
Tong King Lee - Sentimentalism’s Translational Journeys: Bitter Society and Lin Shu’s Translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Wen Jin - A “White Race” without Supremacy: Russians, Racial Hybridity, and Liminality in the Chinese Literature of Manchukuo
InYoung Bong - Marketization, Hollywood, Global China
Darrell William Davis
Volume 25, Number 2 (Fall 2013) SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE DIS/APPEARANCE OF THE POLITICAL MASS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA (guested edited by Anup Grewal and Tie Xiao)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Did Someone Say “Crowd”? The Dis/Appearance of the Political Mass in Contemporary China: Introduction [click to download pdf]
Anup Grewal and Tie Xiao - Occupied Dream: Politico-Affective Space and the Collective in Zong Pu’s Fiction
Roy Chan - Heroic Human Pixels: Mass Ornaments and Digital Multitudes in Zhang Yimou’s Spectacles
Jason McGrath - The Star and the Queen: Heritage Conservation and the Emergence of a New Hong Kong Subject
Chun Chun Ting - A Face in the Crowd: Imagining Individual and Collective “Disabled” Identities in Contemporary China
Sarah Dauncey - Visual Spectacular, Revolutionary Epic, and Personal Voice: The Narration of History in Chinese Main Melody Films
Hongmei Yu - Yue Minjun: Iconographies of Repetition
Louis H. Ho - Afterword: Political Crowds, Political China [click link for a pdf version of the full afterword]
Chaohua Wang
Notes on Contributors
Volume 25, Number 1 (Spring 2013)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Articulating Sadness, Gendering Space: The Politics and Poetics of Taiyu Films from 1960s Taiwan
Yinjing Zhang - Visual and Theatrical Constructs of a Modern Life in the Countryside: James Yen, Xiong Foxi, and the Rural Reconstruction Movement in Ding County (1920s-1930s)
Yu Zhang - The Politics of Representing Tibet: Alai’s Tibetan Native-Place Stories
Yiyan Wang - The Social Construction and Deconstruction of Evil Landlords in Contemporary Chinese Fiction, Art, and Collective Memory
Guo Wu - From Patriarchal Polygamy to Conjugal Monogamy: Imagining Male Same-Sex Relationships in Modern China
Jie Guo - To Believe or Not to Believe: Zhou Zuoren’s Alternative Approaches to the Chinese Enlightenement
Tonglu Li
Notes on Contributors
Volume 24, Number 2 (Fall 2012)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- The Lure of the Irrational: Zhu Qianzhi’s Vision of Qunzhong in the “Era of Crowds”
Tie Xiao - Specters of Realism and the Painter’s Gaze in Jia Zhangke’s Still Life
Corey Byrnes - Theater of Pathos: Sentimental Melodramas in the New Drama Legacy
Li Jin - Local Actors and National Politics: Rural Amateur Drama Troupes and Mass Campaigns in Hubei Province, 1949-1953
Brian DeMare - Myths of Revolution and Sensual Revisions: New Representation of Martyrs on the Chinese Screen
Haosheng Yang - Aboriginal Autonomy and Its Place in Taiwan’s National Trauma Narrative
Craig A. Smith
Notes on Contributors
Volume 24, Number 1 (Spring 2012)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- The “Affective Alliance”: Undercover, Internet Media Fandom, and the Sociality of Cultural Consumption in Postsocialist China
Shuyu Kong - The Meaning of Foreign Text in Yu Dafu’s Sinking Collection
Valerie Levan - Cui Zi’en’s Night Scene and China’s Visual Queer Discourse
Jie Zhang - Ends of Betrayal: Diaspora and Historical Representation in the Late Works of Zhang Ailing
Shuang Shen - A Ghostly Bodhisattva and the Price of Vengeance: Meng Chao, Li Huiniang, and the Politics of Drama, 1959-1979
Maggie Greene
Notes on Contributors
Volume 23, Number 2 (Fall 2011)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Through the Looking Glass of Spatiality: Spatial Practice, Contact Relation, and the Isis Theater in Shanghai, 1917-1937
Xuelei Huang - Poetics, Politics, and Ursprung/Yuan: On Lu Xun’s Conception of “Mara Poetry”
Pu Wang - The Making of a Chinese Romantic: Cosmopolitan Nationalism and Lyrical Exoticism in Xu Xu’s Early Travel Writings
Frederik Green - Between English and Guoyu: The English Student, English Weekly, and the Commmercial Press’s Correspondence Schools
Michael Gibbs Hill - Science and Poetry: Narrativizing Marital Crisis in Reform-Era Rural China
Hui Faye Xiao - Chinese Salomes on the Modern Stage
Jing Jiang
Notes on Contributors
Volume 23, Number 1 (Spring 2011) SPECIAL ISSUE ON DISCOURSES OF DISEASE (guested edited by Carlos Rojas)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Introduction: “The Germ of Life” [click to download pdf]
Carlos Rojas, guest editor - Vectors of Contagion and Tuberculosis in Modern Chinese Literature
Andrew Schonebaum - Of Canons and Cannibalism: A Psycho-Immunological Reading of “Diary of a Madman”
Carlos Rojas - In Sickness or in Health: Yan Lianke and the Writing of Autoimmunity
Chien-hsien Tsai - From the De-Based Literati to the Debased Intellectual: A Chinese Hypochondriac in Japan
Feng Lan - From Asylum to Museum: The Discourse of Insanity and Schizophrenia in Shen Congwen’s 1949 Transition
Xiaojue Wang - Configuring Female Sickness and Recovery: Chen Ran and Anni Baobei
Xin Yang - Graphic Germs: Mediality, Virulence, Chinese Writing
Andrea Bachner
Notes on Contributors
Volume 22, Number 2 (Fall 2010)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- The Treasure-Seekers: The Poetry of Social Function in a Beijing Recitation Club
John A. Crespi - Roads to Salvation: Shen Congwen, Xiao Qian, and the Problem of Non-Communist Celebrity Writers, 1948-1957
Jenny Huangfu - Trading Metaphors: Chinese Prose Poetry and the Reperiodization of the Twentieth Century
Nick Admussen - Diffusion of Absence: The Official Appropriation of Yuan Zhen in Modern Tongzhou
Daisy Yan Du - The Dis/Reappearance of Yu Dafu in Ng Kim Chew’s Fiction
Alison Groppe - Literary Interventions: Yamamoto Sanehiko’s Contributions to Sino-Japanese Literary Exchange in the Interwar Period
Christopher T. Keaveney - Death as a Triple Allegory: Existential Truth, Cultural Reflection, and Historical Authenticity in Yu Hua’s Fiction
Zhansui Yu
Notes on Contributors
Volume 22, Number 1 (Spring 2010)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- “Inconvenient Confucianism and the Construction of Heroes in Recent Chinese Reportage: A Banned Investigation into China’s Peasantry
Helen Dunstan - Constructing a Neo-Realist Reality: Petty Urbanites, Mundaneness, and Chi Li’s Fiction
Haoming Gong - Sex, Sports, and China’s National Crisis, 1931-1945: The “Athletic Movie Star” Li Lili (1915-2005)
Yunxiang Gao - Wildean Echoes in the Plays of Ding Xilin
Ruth Herd and Zhang Jian - Waving the Red Flag: Cultural Memory and Grassroots Protest in Housing Disputes in Shanghai
Qin Shao
Notes on Contributors
Volume 21, Number 2 (Fall 2009)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- “Addicted to Beauty’: Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang
Jin Feng - Transcultural Translation/Transference in Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Yang Xiaobin - Home and Nation in Rubbble: Fei Mu’s Spring in a Small Town and Jia Zhangke’s Still Life
Jie Li - The Temple and the Market: Controversial Positions in the Literary Field with Chinese Characteristics
Marco Fumian - Activating Images: The Ideological Use of Metapictures and Visualized Metatexts in the Iconography of the Cultural Revolution
Francesca Dal Lago - Transnational Chinese Cinema with a French Twist: Emily Tang Xiaobai’s Conjugation and Jia Zhangke’s The World as Sinofrench Films
Michelle Bloom
Notes on Contributors
Volume 21, Number 1 (Spring 2009)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Muffled Dialect Spoken by Green Fruit: An Alternative History of Modern Chinese Poetry
Xiaofei Tian - Between Past and Future: Documentary Films on 2/28 in Taiwan
Sylvia Li-chun Lin - The Heart of the Party: Language, Gender, and Power in Tracks in the Snowy Forest
Krista Van Fleit Hang - Officializing the Unofficial: Presenting New Chinese Art to the World
Meiqin Wang - Viewing Sinophone Cinema Through a French Theoretical Lens: Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love, and 2046, and Deleuze’s Cinema
Flannery Wilson - Two Stage Brothers: Tracing a Common Heritage in Early Films by Xie Jin and Li Xing
James Wicks
Notes on Contributors
Volume 20, Number 2 (Fall 2008): SPECIAL ISSUE ON COMIC VISIONS OF MODERN CHINA (guest edited by Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland)
Articles
- Comic Visions of Modern China: Introduction [click to download pdf]
Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland - The Laborer at Play: Laborer’s Love, the Operational Aesthetic, and the Comedy of Inventions
Xinyu Dong - Comedy and Cultural Entrepreneurship in Xu Zhuodai’s Huaji Shanghai
Christopher G. Rea - Ding Xilin and Chen Baichen: Building a Modern Theater through Comedy
John B. Weinstein - The Screenwriter as Cultural Broker: Travels of Zhang Ailing’s Comedy of Love
Kenny K. K. Ng - The Problematics of Comedy: New China Cinema and the Case of Lu Ban
Ying Bao - Jackie Chan’s Cosmopolitical Consciousness and Comic Displacement
Kin-Yan Szeto
Notes on Contributors
Volume 20, Number 1 (Spring 2008)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Zhang Yimou’s Hero: Reclaiming the Martial Arts Film for ‘All under Heaven’
Feng Lan - Writing from the Obverse: Wong Bik-Wan’s Fiction and Nostalgia in Hong Kong
Janet Ng - Imaginary Sites of Memory: Wang Zengqi and Post-Mao Reconstructions of the Native Land
Carolyn FitzGerald - A War of Wounds: Disability, Disfigurement, and Antiheroic Portrayals of the War of Resistance Against Japan
Steven L. Riep - Opening Doors: Countermemory in Wuhe’s Early Short Stories
Christopher Neil Payne
Notes on Contributors
Volume 19, Number 2 (Fall 2007)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Joining the Commune or Withdrawing from the Commune: A Reading of Yan Lianke’s Shouhuo
Jianmei Liu - Venturing into Shanghai: The Flâneur in Two of Shi Zhecun’s Short Stories
Yiyan Wang - Why Is There a Poem in this Story? Li Shangyin’s Poetry, Contemporary Chinese Literature, and the Futures of the Past
Paola Iovene - Looking Back at Ann Hui’s Cinema of the Political
Ka-Fai Yau - Montage as Chinese: Modernism, the Avant-garde, and the Strange Appropriation of China
Sean Macdonald
Notes on Contributors
Volume 19, Number 1 (Spring 2007)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Night Thoughts of a Hungry Ghost Writer: Chen Bulei and the Life of Service in Republican China
Dahpon Ho - Cinema as Heterochronos: Temporal Folds in the Work of Tsai Ming-liang
Andrea Bachner - Poetics of Navigation: River Lyricism, Epic Consciousness, and Post-Mao Sublime Poemscape
Jiayan Mi - Qiu Jin’s Nine Burials: The Making of Historical Monuments and Public Memory
Hu Ying - The Shanghai Fine Arts College: Art Education and Modern Women Artists in the 1920s and 1930s
Jane Zheng
Notes on Contributors
Volume 18, Number 2 (Fall 2006)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Recycling the Scholar-Beauty Narrative: Lu Xun on Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Eileen J. Cheng - Yuefeng: A Literati Journal of the 1930s
Susan Daruvala - Negotiating In-Between: On New-Generation Filmmaking and Jia Zhangke’s Films
Shuqin Cui - Memory or Fantasy? Honggaoliang‘s Narrator
G. Andrew Stuckey - The Rhetoric of Local Languages as Marginal: Chinese Underground and Independent Films by Jia Zhangke and Others
Jin Liu
Notes on Contributors
Volume 18, Number 1 (Spring 2006): SPECIAL ISSUE ON MODERNISMS’ CHINAS (guest edited by Eric Hayot)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Modernisms’ Chinas: Introduction (click to download pdf)
Eric Hayot - Mei Lanfang in Moscow, 1935: Familiar, Unfamiliar, Defamiliar
Haun Saussy - Reconstructing Modernism: The Shifting Narratives of Chinese Modernist Architecture
Yaohua Shi - “Oriental Coefficient: The Role of China in the Japanization of Yôga
Bert Winther-Tamaki - Betrand Russell’s Chinese Eyes
Eric Hayot - Reflections on the Legacy of Tian Han: “Proletarian Modernism” and Its Traditional Roots
Xiaomei Chen
Notes on Contributors
Volume 17, Number 2 (Fall 2005)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Anarchy in the PRC: Meng Jinghui’s Adaptation of Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Rossella Ferrari - Trauma and the Politics of Identity: Form and Function in Narratives of the February 28th Incident
Margaret Hillenbrand - “Metacinema for the Masses: Three Films by Feng Xiaogang
Jason McGrath - The City as Seductress: Reimagining Shanghai in Contemporary Film and Fiction
Vivian P. Y. Lee - In the Name of Enlightenment: Pedagogy and the Uses of Same-Sex Desire in Early-Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
Ta-wei Chi
Errata
Notes on Contributors
Volume 17, Number 1 (Spring 2005): SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHINESE CULTURE IN INTER-ASIA (published simultaneously in Chinese by Chung-Wai Literary Monthly, Taiwan)
Articles
- Editor’s Remarks
- Introduction: Chinese Culture in Inter-Asia [click to download pdf]
Guest Editors, Laikwan Pang and Kwai-Cheung Lo - Tasting Asia: 12 Poems [click to download pdf]
Leung Ping-kwan - Architectures of Global Modernity, Colonialism and Places
Arif Dirlik - Burning Asia: Bruce Lee’s Kinetic Narrative of Decolonization
M. T. Kato - Kaneshiro Takeshi: Transnational Stardom and the Media and Culture Industries in Asia’s Global/Postcolonial Age
Eva Tsai - There Is no Such Thing as Asia: Racial Particularities in the “Asian” Films of Hong Kong and Japan
Kwai-Cheung Lo - New Asian Cinema and Its Circulation of Violence
Laikwan Pang - Civilizational Difference and Criticism: On the Complicity of Globalization and Cultural Nationalism
Naoki Sakai
Notes on Contributors
Volume 16, Number 2 (Fall 2004)
Articles
- Editor’s Remarks
- “Old Learning” and the Refeminization of Modern Space in the Lyric Poetry of Lü Bicheng
Shengqing Wu - Sympathy, Hypocrisy, and the Trauma of Chineseness
Haiyan Lee - “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Nianhua and Yuefenpai at the Dawn of the People’s Republic
James Flath - Identity and Free Will in Colonial Taiwan Fiction: Wu Zhuoliu’s “The Doctor’s Mother” and Wang Changxiong’s “Torrent”
Bert Scruggs - Ah Q Progeny–Son of Ah Q, Modern Ah Q, Miss Ah Q, Sequels to Ah Q: Post-1949 Creative Intersections with the Ah Q Discourse
Paul B. Foster
Notes on Contributors
Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring 2004)
Articles
- Editor’s Remarks
- Gendered Spectacles: Lu Xun on Gazing at Women and Other Pleasures
Eileen J. Cheng - Two Texts to a Story: White Terror in Taiwan
Sylvia Li-chun Lin - “From the Center to the Periphery: Chinese Documentary’s Visual Conjectures
Paola Voci - Retrieving the Working Body in Modern Chinese Fiction: The Question of the Ethical in Representation
Jian Xu - The Figuration of a Sublime Origin: Guo Moruo’s Qu Yuan
Yi Zheng
Notes on Contributors
Volume 15, Number 2 (Fall 2003)
Articles
- Editor’s Remarks
- Che Guevara: Dramatizing China’s Divided Intelligentsia at the Turn of the Century
Yinghong Cheng - Nation, Topography, and Historiography: Writing Topographical Histories in Hong Kong
Jeremy E. Taylor - “San Mao and Qiong Yao, a “Popular” Pair
Miriam Lang - Body, Space, and Power: Reading the Cultural Images of Concubines in the Works of Su Tong and Zhang Yimou
Hsiu-Chuang Deppman - Propagating the Propaganda Film: The Meaning of Film in Chinese Communist Party Writings, 1949-1965
Tina Mai Chen
Notes on Contributors
Volume 15, Number 1 (Spring 2003): SPECIAL ISSUE ON TAIWAN FILM (guest edited by Yomi Braester and Nicole Huang)
Articles
- Guest Editors’ Introduction (click to download pdf)
Yomi Braester and Nicole Huang - Elvis, Allow Me to Introduce Myself: American Music and Neocolonialism in Taiwan Cinema
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh - If We Could Remember Everything, We Would Be Able to Fly: Taipei’s Cinematic Poetics of Demolition
Yomi Braester - “Nezha Was Here”: Structures of Dis/placement in Tsai Ming-liang’s Rebels of the Neon God
Carlos Rojas - Black Holes of Globalization: Critique of the New Millennium in Taiwan Cinema
Ban Wang - Taiwanese Popular Cinema and the Strange Apprenticeship of Hou Hsiao-hsien
James Udden - The New Taiwanese Documentary
Robert Chi
Reviews
- Lu Xun (1881-1936): Texte, Chronik, Bilder, Dokumente, by Raoul David Findeisen
Denise Gimpel
Notes on Contributors
Volume 14, Number 2 (Fall 2002): SPECIAL ISSUE ON GAO XINGJIAN
Articles
- Editors’ Remarks
- Gao Xingjian, the Nobel Prize, and Chinese Intellectuals: Notes on the Aftermath of the Nobel Prize 2000
Julia Lovell - Perfomance in Alienated Voices: Mode of Narrative in Gao Xingjian’s Theatre
Sy Ren Quah - My Writing, Your Pain, and Her Trauma: Pronouns and (Gendered) Subjectivity in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain and One Man’s Bible
Gang Gary Xu - Gao Xingjian in the “Chinese” Perspective of Qu Yuan and Shen Congwen
Jeffrey C. Kinkley - Without [Femin]ism: Femininity as Axis of Alterity and Desire in Gao Xingjian’s One Man’s Bible
Carlos Rojas - Lost in the Woods: Nature in Soul Mountain
Thomas Moran - Afterword to One Man’s Bible
Liu Zaifu
Reviews
- Lost Voices of Modernity: A Chinese Popular Fiction Magazine in Context, by Denise Gimpel
Jeffrey C. Kinkley - Towards a Modern Zen Theatre: Gao Xingjian and Chinese Theatre Experimentalism, by Henry Y.H. Zhao
Mabel Lee
Notes on Contributors
Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 2002)
Articles
- Editors’ Remarks
- Re-envisioning the Great Interior: Gardens and the Upper Class between the Imperial and the “Modern”
Yue Meng - Shanghai Variations on “Revolution Plus Love”
Jianmei Liu - Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Chinese Literary Journals in the Cultural Marketplace
Shuyu Kong - Cultural Lexicology: Maqiao Dictionary by Han Shaogong
Vivian Lee - From Evangelism to Entertainment: The YMCA, the NBA, and the Evolution of Chinese Basketball
Judy Polumbaum - The Logic of the Phantasm: Haunting and Spectrality in the Contemporary Chinese Literary Imagination
Jianguo Chen
Reviews
- Tales of Translation: Composing the New Woman in China, 1899-1918. By Ying Hu
Jing M. Wang - Postmodernism & China. Edited by Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang
Jie Lu
Notes on Contributors
Volume 13, Number 2 (Fall 2001): SPECIAL ISSUE ON POETRY (guest edited by Michelle Yeh)
Articles
- Editors’ Remarks (click to download pdf)
Michelle Yeh - Great Expectations: Self, Form, and the First Modern Chinese Poem
Paul Manfredi - Fei Ming’s Poetics of Representation: Dream, Fantasy, Illusion, and Alayavijnana [this essay has been translated into Chinese in Xin shi pinglun 2 (2005)]
Haoming Liu - Calculated Passions: The Lyric and the Theatric in Mao-era Poetry Recitation
John A. Crespi - The Guizhou Undercurrent
Andrew G. Emerson - The Forces of Production: Symmetry and the Imagination in the Early Poetry of Gu Cheng
Simon Patton - “Made Things”: Serial Form in Modern Poetry from Taiwan
Silvia Marijnissen
Reviews
- Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China: Modernization, Identity, and International Relations. By Yongnian Zheng
Ben Xu - Die Poesie des Sudens: Eine vergleichende Studie zur chinesische Lyrik der Gegenwart. By Raffael Keller
Maghiel van Crevel
Notes on Contributors
Volume 13, Number 1 (Spring 2001)
Articles
- Editor’s Remarks
Kirk A. Denton - Sorrow after the Honeymoon: The Controversy over Domesticity in Late Republican China
Lu Liu - From Pulp to Politics: Aspects of Topicality in Fiction by Li Ang
Rosemary Haddon - Photography and Autobiography: Zhang Ailing’s Looking at Each Other
Laikwan Pang - Cultural Invention and Cultural Intervention: Reading Chinese Urban Fiction of the Nineties
Jie Lu - The Ironic Inflation of Chinese National Character: Lu Xun’s International Reputation, Roman Rolland’s Critique of ‘The True Story of Ah Q,’ and the Nobel Prize
Paul B. Foster - Uses and Abuses of Sentimental Nationalism: Mnemonic Disquiet in Heshang and Shuobu
Toming Jun Liu
Reviews
- Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cltural Politics. By Louisa Schein
Mark Bender - New Generation: Poems from China Today. Edited by Wang Ping
Andrea Lingenfelter
Notes on Contributors
Volume 12, Number 2 (Fall 2000): SPECIAL ISSUE ON VISUAL CULTURE AND MEMORY IN MODERN CHINA (guest edited by Julia F. Andrews and Xiaomei Chen).Special issue image archive (contains original color versions of the 166 images appearing in this issue)
Articles
- Guest Editors’ Introduction
Julia F. Andrews and Xiaomei Chen - Seeing the World Through Xianqing ouji (1671): Visuality, Performance, and Narratives of Modernity
Patricia Sieber - Re/Collecting the Sources: Shanghai’s Dianshizhai Pictorial and the Its Place in Historical Memories, 1884-1949
Christopher A. Reed - Perceptions of Change, Changes of Perception–West Lake as Contested Site/Sight in the Wake of the 1911 Revolution
Eugene Y. Wang - Reform, Revolutionary, Political and Resistance Themes in Chinese Popular Prints, 1900-1940
Ellen Johnston Laing - Publishing Posters Before the Cultural Revolution
Kuiyi Shen - Visual Memory and the Construction of a Revolutionary Past: Paintings from the Museum of the Chinese Revolution
Kirk A. Denton - China as Utopia: Visions of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in Latin America
Megan M. Ferry
Reviews
- The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China. By Gang Yue.
Charles A. Laughlin - Invisible Writing: Studies on Chinese Culture in the 1990s (Yinxing shuxie: jiushi niandai Zhongguo wenhua yanjiu). By Dai Jinhua
Shuyu Kong - The Mother and Narrative Politics in Modern China. By Sally Taylor Lieberman.
Lingzhen Wang
Notes on Contributors
Volume 12, Number 1 (Spring 2000)
Articles
- Editor’s Note
- Theory, Professionalism, and Chinese Studies
Gloria Davies - The Cultural Turn in the Study of Modern Chinese Literature: Rey Chow and Diasporic Self-Writing
Li-fen Chen - Revolution and Revulsion: Ideology, Monstrosity, and Phantasmagoria in Ma-Xu Weibang’s Film Song at Midnight
Yomi Braester - Blush from Novella to Film: The Possibility of Critical Art in Commodity Culture
Jian Xu - Titanic in China: Transnational Capitalism as Official Ideology?
Jonathan Noble
Reviews
- Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant “Other” in Modern Chinese Literature. By Yi-Tsi Mei Feuerwerker.
Wendy Larson - The Literary Field of Twentieth-Century China. Edited by Michel Hockx.
Paul Manfredi - The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture: The Art of Reading Dragons. By Bob Hodge and Kam Louie.
Edward McDonald
Contributors
Volume 11, Number 2 (Fall 1999)
Articles
- Editor’s Remarks
- A Journal and a “Society”: On the “May Fourth” Literary Tradition
Wang Xiaoming - Is There a May Fourth Literature: A Reply to Wang Xiaoming
Michel Hockx - A Neglected Medium: The Literary Journal and the Case of The Short Story Magazine (Xiaoshuo yuebao), 1910-1914
Denise Gimpel - Xi Chuan’s “Salute”: Avant-Garde Poetry in a Changing China
Maghiel van Crevel - “Long Live Youth” and the Ironies of Youth and Gender in Chinese Films of the 1950s and 1960s
Xueping Zhong
Reviews
- Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China. By Michael Sullivan.
Katherine P. Burnett - Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions. By Stephen Teo.
Siu Leung Li - The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China. By Ban Wang.
Jianmei Liu
Notes on Contributors
Volume 11, Number 1 (Spring 1999)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Traditionalism as a Modern Stance: The Chinese Women’s Calligraphy and Painting Society.
Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen - Invisible Writing: The Politics of Chinese Mass Culture in the 1990s.
Jinhua Dai - The Will to the Transaesthetic: The Truth Content of Lu Xun’s Fiction
Jian Xu - The Marshes of Mount Liang Beyond the Sea: Jin Yong’s Early Martial Arts Fiction and Post-War Hong Kong
John Christopher Hamm - Trauma and History in Chinese Film: Reading The Blue Kite against Melodrama
Ban Wang - Contesting Memory for Intellectual Self-Positioning: 1990’s New Cultural Conservatism in China
Ben Xu - A Brief Essay on Qian Zhongshu
Theodore Huters
Reviews
- Where Politics End and Poetry Begins. Review Essay on Language Shattered: Contemporary Chinese Poetry and Duoduo. By Maghiel van Crevel.
Michelle Yeh - Women and Writing in Modern China. By Wendy Larson.
Michel Hockx - Ethics after Idealism. By Rey Chow.
Eric Hayot - New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Edited by Nick Browne, Paul G. Pickowicz, Vivian Sobchack, and Esther Yau.
Andrea Lingenfelter
Notes on Contributors
Volume 10, Number 1/2 (Spring/Fall 1998)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Anal Anarchy: A Reading of Mo Yan’s “The Plagues of Red Locusts.”
Ling Tun Ngai - Kumarajiva’s Foreign Tongue: Shi Zhecun’s Modernist Historical Fiction.
William Schaefer - A Fiction Revealing Collusion: Allegory and Evasion in the Mid-1970s.
Richard King - Decadence, Revolution and Self-Determination in Su Tong’s Fiction.
Deirdre Sabina Knight - Change and Continuity in the Fiction of Zhang Henshui (1895-1967): from Oneiric Romanticism to Nightmare Realism.
T.M. McClellan - Gu Cheng’s Ying’er: A Journey to the West.
Li Xia - Ideological Style in the Language of the Chinese Novels of the Cultural Revolution.
Lan Yang - The Lonely Traveler Revisited in Yu Hua’s Fiction.
Rong Cai - The Moral Dilemma of China’s Modernization: Rethinking Zhang Yimou’s Qiu Ju da guansi.
A-chin Hsiau
Bibliography
- Chinese Electric Shadows III: And the Ship Sails On.
H.C. Li
Reports
- Writing Taiwan: Strategies of Representation. An International Symposium on Chinese Literature from Taiwan.
Xu Gang
Reviews
- Family Catastrophe. By Wang Wen-hsing. Translated by Susan Wan Dooling
Backed Against the Sea. By Wang Wen-hsing. Translated by Edward Gunn. - Writing Women in Modern China: An Anthology of Women’s Literature from the Early Twentieth Century. Ed. Amy D. Dooling and Kristina M. Torgeson.
Sylvia Li-chun Lin
Notes on Contributors
Index to Volumes 9 and 10
Index to Volumes 1-10
Volume 9, Number 2 (Fall 1996): SPECIAL ISSUE ON POETRY (guest editor Michelle Yeh)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Preface.
Michelle Yeh - Underground Poetry in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Maghiel van Crevel - Modern Hong Kong Poetry: Negotiation of Cultures and the Search for Identity.
Ping-Kwan Leung - Creator! Destroyer!- On the Self-Image of the Chinese Poet.
Wolfgang Kubin - Born Poet and Born Lover: Wang Jingzhi’s Love Poetry within the May Fourth Context.
Michel Hockx - Some Rhythmic Structures in Feng Zhi’s Sonnets.
Lloyd Haft - “Variant Keys” and “Omni-Vision”: A Study of Shang Qin.
Michelle Yeh - Ideology and Conflicts in Bei Dao’s Poetry.
Dian Li - An Interview with Bei Dao.
Gabi Gleichmann
Reviews
- Collected Poems of Shu Ting. By Shu Ting. Tr.
Andrea Lingenfelter - The Unbearable Heaviness of Being: Gender, Sexuality and Insanity in Gu Cheng and Xie Ye’s Ying’er.
Simon Patton
Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 1995): SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE CITY (guest editor Xiaobing Tang)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Introduction
Xiaobing Tang - The Texture of the Metropolis: Modernist Inscriptions of Shanghai in the 1930’s.
Yingjin Zhang - When Spring Arrives
Hei Ying (translated by May-lee Chai) - Shanghai’s Economy of the Spectacle: The Shanghai Race Club in Liu Na’ou’s and Mu Shiying’s Stories.
Yomi Braester - An Overview of Chinese Theories of Fiction from the 1940’s
Qian Liqun (translated by Steven Day) - Shanghai Shimin Literature and the Ambivalence of (Urban) Home.
Xueping Zhong - Shanghai Literature and Beyond: An Interview with Li Ziyun.
Xueping Zhong - Displacement of the Urban-Rural Confrontation in Su Tong’s Fiction.
Robin Visser
Reviews
- Forms of Distance. By Bei Dao.
Simon Patton - Morning Sun: Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation. By Laifong Leung.
- Modern Chinese Writers: Self-Portrayals. Edited by Helmut Martin and Jeffrey Kinkley
Haili Kong
Notes on Contributors
Index to Volume 8
Volume 8, Number 1/2 (Spring/Fall 1994)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Ambiguous Subjectivity: Reading Can Xue.
Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg - New Light on Lao She, London, and the London Missionary Society, 1921-1929.
Robert A. Bickers - In Search of Laughter: Yang Jiang’s Feminist Comedy.
Amy D. Dooling - Animal Symbolism and Political Dissidence in Half of Man is Woman.
Zuyan Zhou - Chinese Nativist Literature of the 1920s: The Sojourner-Narrator.
Rosemary Haddon - Preview: Modern Chinese Poetry (1900-1937).
Bonnie McDougall
Special Section: Chinese Literature in Translation – Five Essays
- Chinese Literature in the “World” Literary Economy.
Andrew F. Jones - Chinese Voices: A Review.
Ronald R. Janssen - Notes from the Margin: On Recent Translations of Modern Chinese Poetry.
John Balcom - The Translatability of Chinese Culture in Contemporary Chinese Fiction.
Kam Louie - The Arrival of “Fiction from Modern China.”
Trevor Carolan
Bibliography
- More Chinese Electric Shadows: A Supplementary List.
H.C. Li
Reviews
- Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society. Edited by Tonglin Lu.
Gianna Quach - Rainbow. By Mao Dun. Translated by Madeleine Zelin.
Gianna Quach - Art and Ideology in Revolutionary China. By David Holm.
Charles A. Laughlin
Correspondence
- Gregory Lee on Looking Out from Death
Notes on Contributors
Index to Volume 7
Volume 7, Number 2 (Fall 1993): SPECIAL ISSUE ON FILMING MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE (guest editor William S. Tay)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Sinifying and Popularizing Foreign Culture: From Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths to Huang Zuolin’s Ye dian.
Paul G. Pickowicz - Innovation through Adaptation: The Use of Literature in New Taiwan Film and Its Consequences.
Stephanie Hoare - A Souvenir of Love.
Rey Chow - Once Upon a Time: Technology Comes to Presence in China.
Kwai-Cheung Lo
Report
- “Trafficking” in Chinese Films.
Hsiung-ping Chiao (Translated by John Balcom)
Interviews
- Interview with Peng Xiaolian.
Interview with Ding Xiaoqi.
Chris Berry
Bibliography
- Chinese Electric Shadows: A Selected Bibliography of Materials in English.
H.C. Li
Reviews
- Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan. By Yvonne Chang.
Rosemary Haddon - Inside Out: Modernism and Postmodernism in Chinese Literary Culture.
Edited by Wendy Larson and Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg.
Xiaobing Tang
Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 1993)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Residual Modernism: Narratives of the Self in Contemporary Chinese Fiction.
Xiaobing Tang - The Feminist Poetic of Xia Yu.
Michelle Yeh - Mixed Style in Lu Ling’s Novel Children of the Rich: Family Chronicle and Bildungsroman.
Kang Liu - Liu Yichang’s Jiutu: Literature, Gender, and Fantasy in Contemporary Hong Kong.
Wendy Larson - Revisionism and Transformation in the Cultural Revolution Novel.
Richard King - False Harmony: Mao Dun on Women.
Yu-shih Chen - Memorial Essay: Marston Anderson
Ted Huters
Reviews
- Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals. Ed. and introduced by Michael S. Duke.
Gregory Lee - Realism and Allegory in the Early Fiction of Mao Tun. By Yu-shih Chen.
Gregory Lee - Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China. By Nieh Hualing. Trans. Jane Parish Yang with Linda Lappin
Gianna Quach
Currents
- Necrology
- Doctoral Dissertations in Western Languages on Modern Chinese Literature: 1988-1991
Notes on Contributors
Index to Volume 5 and 6
Volume 6, Number 1/2 (Spring/Fall 1992): SPECIAL ISSUE ON CONTEMPORARY CHINESE FICTION FROM TAIWAN (guest editor William S. Tay)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Language as Politics: The Metamorphosis of Nativism in Recent Taiwan Literature.
Lin Yaofu - Imaginary Homeland: Postwar Taiwan in Contemporary Political Fiction.
Ying-hsiung Chou - Fin de siecle Splendor: Contemporary Women Writers’ Vision of Taiwan.
David Der-wei Wang - Chu T’ien-wen and Taiwan’s Recent Cultural and Literary Trends.
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang - Mandarin Kitsch and Taiwanese Kitsch in the Fiction of Wang Chen-ho.
Jeffrey C. Kinkley - Rhetoric, History and Interpretation in Chang Hsi-kuo’s The Star-Cloud Suite.
Kin-yuen Wong - Graphemics and Novel Interpretation: The Case of Wang Wen-hsing.
Han-liang Chang - (En)gendering the Nation in Pai Hsien-yung’s “Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream.”
Christopher Lupke - Form and Its Discontent: A Rereading of Ch’i-teng Sheng’s Fiction.
Li-fen Chen - The Mirror as History and History as Spectacle: Reflections on Hsiao Yeh and Su T’ung.
Xiaobing Tang
Reviews
- Looking Out from Death: From the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square. By Duoduo. Translated by Gregory Lee and John Cayley.
Peter Button - I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling. Edited by Tani E. Barlow and Gary J. Bjorge.
Hu Ying - Drama in the People’s Republic of China. Ed. by Constantine Tung and Colin Mackerras.
- The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama: Four Studies. By Rudolf Wagner.
Edward Gunn - Turbulence. By Jia Pingwa. Tr. by Howard Goldblatt.
David Der-wei Wang
Currents
- Conferences, Meetings, and Seminars on Modern Chinese Literature (1991)
Volume 5, Number 2 (Fall 1989): SPECIAL ISSUE ON WARTIME LITERATURE (guest editor Theodore Huters)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Introduction
Theodore Huters - Realism’s Last Stand: Character and Ideology in Zhang Tianyi’s Three Sketches.
Marston Anderson - Lao She’s Wartime Fiction.
David Wang - Wang Tongzhao and the Ideal of Resistance Enlightenment: Symbolic Resistance in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-45.
Po-shek Fu - Mao Dun’s Fushi: The Politics of the Self.
Theodore Huters - Lu Ling’s Children of the Rich: The Role of Mind in Social Transformation.
Kirk A. Denton - Political Transformation in Wu Zuxiang’s Wartime Novel Shanhong.
Catherine Pease Campbell - Bibliography of Literature of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45).
Kirk A. Denton - Review: Voices from the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun. By Leo Ou-fan Lee.
Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker
Reviews
- The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period. By Marston Anderson.
David D.W. Wang - Dai Wangshu: The Life and Poetry of a Chinese Modernist. By Gregory Lee.
Jeffrey C. Kinkley - Science Fiction from China. Ed. by Dingbo Wu and Patrick Murphy.
Jeffrey C. Kinkley - Complete Poems: A Translation with Introduction and Annotation. By Lu Xun. Translated and annotated by David Y. Ch’en.
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories. By Lu Xun. Translated by William A. Lyell.
Lydia H. Liu - Bolshevik Salute: A Modernist Chinese Novel. By Wang Meng. Translated by Wendy Larson.
Philip F. Williams
Currents
- Conferences, Meetings, and Seminars on Modern Chinese Literature (1989)
Volume 5, Number 1 (Spring 1989): SPECIAL ISSUE ON PRC LITERATURE OF THE 1980s
- Editor’s Remarks
- Social Responsibility and Self-Expression: Chinese Literature in the 1980’s.
Helen F. Siu - Romance of the Red Sorghum Family.
Ying-hsiung Chou - Between Aesthetics and Hermaneutics: A New Type of Bildungsgroman in Ah Cheng’s “The Chess Champion.”
Kin-yuen Wong - A New Beginning for the Modernist Chinese Novel: Zhao Zhenkai’s Bodong.
Philip Williams - Color, Character, and Culture: On Yellow Earth, Black Cannon Incident, and Red Sorghum.
H.C. Li - Reinventing China: The Fifth-Generation Filmmakers.
Paul Clark
Reviews
- Half of Man is Woman. By Zhang Xianliang. Trans. Martha Avery.
Marsha L. Wagner - The Odyssey of Shen Congwen. By Jeffrey C. Kinkley.
Edward Gunn - The Isle Full of Noises: Modern Chinese Poetry from Taiwan. Ed. and trans. by Dominic Cheung.
Essays on Contemporary Chinese Poetry. By Julia Lin.
Christopher Lupke - Zhang Henshui Yanjiu Ziliao. Ed. Zhang Zhanguo and Wei Shouzhong.
King-fai Tam
Currents
- Necrology
- Conferences, Meetings, and Seminars on Modern Chinese Literature (1989)
- Publications News
- New Organizations and Programs Related to Modern Chinese Literature
Notes on Contributors
Index to volume 4 (1988)
Volume 4, Number 1/2 (Spring/Fall 1988)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Introduction: Gender, Writing, Feminism, China.
Tani Barlow - The Language of Despair: Ideological Representations of the “New Woman” by May Fourth Intellectuals.
Ching-kiu Stephen Chan - The End of “Funu Wenxue”: Women’s Literature from 1925 to 1935.
Wendy Larson - Virtuous Transactions: A Reading of Three Short Stories by Ling Shuhua.
Rey Chow - Images of Subjugation and Defiance: Female Characters in the Early Dramas of Tian Han.
Randy Kaplan - Three Interviews: Wang Anyi, Zhu Lin, Dai Qing.
Wang Zheng - Writing with you Body: Literature as a Wound-Remarks on the Poetry of Shu Ting.
Wolfgang Kubin - Harmony and Equality:Reflections on “Mimosa” and “Ark.”
Chen Yu-shih - In the Translator’s Eye: Richard King on the Significance of Zhu Lin.
Richard King - Feminism in the Chinese Context: Li Ang’s The Butcher’s Wife.
Sheung-Yuen Daisy Ng - Yuan Qiongqiong and the Rage for Eileen Zhang among Taiwan’s Feminine Writers.
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang - Information Is All That Counts: An Introduction to Chinese Women’s Writing in German Translation.
Ruth Keen
Review Articles
- Taking Tiger Mountain: Can Xue’s Resistance and Cultural Critique.
Jon Solomon - Political Evaluation and Reevaluation in Contemporary Chinese Fiction.
Margaret H. Decker
Currents
- Conferences, Meetings, and Seminars on Modern Chinese Literature (1988)
- Publication News
- New Organizations and Programs Related to Modern Chinese Literature
- Appeal for Funds for the Re-Publication of the Literary Magazine Today
Notes on Contributors
Index to volume 3 (1987)
Volume 3, Number 1/2 (Spring/Fall 1987)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Western Influences in the Poetry of Dai Wangshu
Gregory Lee - Circularity: Emergence of a form in Modern Chinese Poetry
Michelle Yeh - Her Dexterous Sensibility: On Zheng Min’s Poetry
Ling Chung - The Rise of Children’s Poetry in Contemporary Taiwan
Jing Wang - Cat Country: A Dystopian Satire
Koon-ki Tommy Ho - Li Ang’s Experiments with the Epistolary Form
Sheung-Yuen Daisy Ng - On the Death of Sister Xianglin
Qiu Sha - An Interview with Gao Xiaosheng
Yi-Tsi Mei Feuerwerker - Documents Concerning Tanqiuzhe [The explorer], an Independent Literary Journal Planned during the Hundred Flowers Period
Rudolf G. Wagner
Review Article
- Scandalous Books by a Scandalous Woman
Richard King
Reviews
- Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People’s Repuublic of China, 1949-1979. Ed. by Bonnie S. McDougall
Review Symposium: Lars Ragvald, Kam Louie, Donald M. Lowe, Christina Yao - Roses and Thorns: The Second Blooming of the Hundred Flowers in Chinese Fiction 1979-1980. Ed. by Perry Link
Chrysanthemums and other stories. By Feng Jicai.
Bonnie S. McDougall - After Mao: Chinese Literature and Society 1978-1981. Ed. by Jeffrey C. Kinkley.
Wolfgang Kubin - Going to the People: Chinese Intellectuals and Fold Literature, 1918-1937. By Chang-tai Hung.
Sally Taylor Lieberman
Currents
- Highlights of the San Francisco Symposium on Contemporary Chinese Literature
Timothy Leung - The 2nd International Conference on the Commonwealth of Chinese Literature
Song Yongyi - Necrology
- Conferences, Meetings, and Seminars on Modern Chinese Literature (1987-1988)
- Publications News
- Doctoral Dissertations (1984-1987)
Notes on Contributors
Index to volume II (1986)
Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall 1986)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Gender and Identity in Ding Ling’s Mother
Tani E. Barlow - Lo Ch’ing’s Poetics of Integration: New Configurations of the Literati Tradition
Joseph Roe Allen III - Split Consciousness: The Dialectic of Desire in Camel Xiangzi
Ching-Kiu Stephen Chan - Lu Ling’s Literary Art: Myth and Symbol in Hungry Guo Su’e
Kirk A. Denton - Yao Xueyin and his Li Zicheng: An Interview
Guy Alitto
Reviews
- Lu Xun and his Legacy. Edited by Leo Ou-fan Lee
Carolyn T. Brown - Blooming and Contending: Chinese Literature in the Post-Mao Era. By Michael S. Duke.
Contemporary Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Post-Mao Fiction and Poetry. Ed. with introductions by Michael S. Duke.
Andrew J. Nathan - Trees on the Mountain: An Anthology of New Chinese Writing. Ed. by Stephen C. Soong and John Minford
Michael S. Duke - The Genesis of Modern Chinese Literary Criticism (1917-1930). By Marian Galik
Bruce Doar
Currents
- The 1986 Jinshan Conference
Yu-shih Chen - Conferences, Meetings, and Seminars on Modern Chinese Literature (1986-1987)
- Publication News
New Literary Organizations
Notes on Contributors
Volume 2, Number 1 (Spring 1986)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Local Color and Popularization in the Literature of the Wartime Border Regions
D.L. Holm - Death in the Void: Three tales of Spiritual Atrophy in Ch’en Ying-chen’s Post-Incarceration Fiction
Joseph S.M. Lau - Goethe’s Impact on Modern Chinese Drama
Terry Siu-han Yip - Ibsen and Modern Chinese Dramatists: Influences and Parallels
Kwok-kan Tam - Liu Binyan and the Texie
Rudolf G. Wagner
Reviews
- A Cadre School Life: Six Chapters. by Yang Jiang. Translated by Geremie Berme.
Six Chapters from My Life “Downunder.” By Yang Jiang. Translated by Howard Goldblatt.
Edward Gunn - Literatur und Politic in der Volksrepublic China. By Rudolf G. Wagner
Richard King
Currents
- The Berlin Literature Workshop
Barbara Hendrischke - Literature of the Wartime Base Areas 1937-1949
David L. Holm - Conferences, Meetings, and Seminars on Modern Chinese Literature (1985)
- Publication News
Notes on Contributors
Index to Volume 1
Volume 1, Number 2 (Spring 1985)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Shen Congwen and the Uses of Regionalism in Modern Chinese Literature
Jeffrey C. Kinkley - A Study of the Theories of Chinese Cinema in Their Relationship to Classical Aesthetics
Lin Niantong - Formal Features of Chinese Reportage and an Analysis of Liang Qichao’s “Memoirs of My Travels in the New World”
Yin-Hwa Chou - Reportage and I
Bo Yang - Bei Dao’s Poetry: Revelation and Communication
Bonnie S. McDougall
Reviews
- Women Writers of 20th-Century China
Wendy Larson - On Qian Zhongshu’s Fiction and Its Critics: Some Remarks on Qian Zhongshu by Theodore Huters
Zbigniew Slupski - Pien Chih-lin: A Study in Modern Chinese Poetry. By Lloyd Haft
Bonnie S. McDougall
Currents
- U.S.-China Second Writers’ Conference
Perry Link - Within Four Seas: The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa
Wang Chien-hui - Contemporary Chinese Drama and Theatre
Constantine Tung - Visit of the Writer Liu Xinwu to West Germany
Helmut Martin - Conferences, Meetings, and Seminars on Modern Chinese Literature
Items
- Literature in Numbers
- Errata
- Notes on Contributors
Volume 1, Number 1 (September 1984)
- Editor’s Remarks
- Wang Meng, Stream-of-consciousness, and the Controversy over Modernism
William Tay - An Open Letter on ‘Stream-of-consciousness’
Wang Meng - The Process of Wang Wen-hsing’s Art
Edward Gunn - Language, Narrator, and Stream-of-consciousness: the Two Novels of Wang Wen-hsing
Sung-sheng Chang - Wang Wen-hsing on Wang Wen-hsing
Shan Te-hsing - Literary Innovation and Modes of Production: A Commentary
Fredric Jameson - Writers’ Discontent and Party Response in Yan’an Before “Wild Lily”: The Manchurian Writers and Zhou Yang
Kyna Rubin - Zhao Zhenkai’s Fiction: A Study in Cultural Alienation
Bonnie S. McDougall
Currents
- Comparing the Comparatists
Y.H. Zhao - Early Chinese Cinema- The Era of Exploration
Paul G. Pickowicz - European Workshop
Helmut Martin - Conferences, Meetings, and Seminars on Modern Chinese Literature
- Doctoral Dissertaions in western Languages on Modern Chinese Literature: 1980-1983
- Notes on Contributors