I’m pleased to announce that Chinese Literature Today vol. 8, no. 2 (2019) is now available online (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uclt20/8/2?nav=tocList) and can be accessed for free through the end of March. Below is the table of contents of this new issue:
SPECIAL FEATURE: Twenty-First-Century Chinese Theater
“Avant-Gardism and Experiments of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Theater,” by Liu Hongtao
“Rape,” by Zhang Xian, translated by Li Guo
“Lu Xun, Excerpts from an Unstaged Ahistorical Play,” by Li Jing, translated by David N. C. Hull
“Lu Xun as the Great Master: An Interview with Li Jing,” by Liu Hongtao, translated by David N. C. Hull
“Boundary-Crossing Experiments: Ecology of the Shanghai Avant-Garde Theater in the New Century,” by Zhai Yueqin, translated by Josh Stenberg
“Examining Experimental Theater in Contemporary China,” by Ding Luonan, translated by Nienyuan Cheng
“Subaltern Writing in Twenty-First-Century Chinese Avant-Garde Theater,” by Chen Jide, translated by Nienyuan Cheng
“‘Little Theater’ in Twenty-First-Century China,” by Song Baozhen, translated by Josh Stenberg
TRIBUTE: Jin Yong
“Introduction,” by Liu Hongtao
“Jin Yong and the Kungfu Industrial Complex,” by Paul B. Foster
“Jin Yong’s Method of Imagining China,” by Weijie Song
GUIDED READING: Xiao Fuxing
“The Waiter Old Song and His Two Daughters,” by Xiao Fuxing, translated by Kimberly Wright
FEATURED SCHOLAR: Charles A. Laughlin
“The Revolutionary Imagination in Chinese Studies in America: An Interview with Charles A. Laughlin,” by Zhang Fang, translated by Charles A. Laughlin
“Mapping the Third World: Chinese Reportage on Developing Countries in the 1950s and 1960s,” by Charles A. Laughlin
CHINESE LITERATURE IN REVIEW
Review of Mi Jialu’s Deep Breaths: Collected Poems of Mi Jialu, 1981-2018, by Emily Goedde
Review of Wang Xiaoping’s Postsocialist Conditions: Ideas and History in China’s “Independent Cinema, 1988-2008”, by Yingying Huang
We invite you to read the new issue for free!
Ping Zhu
Acting Editor in Chief