Vol 36, no. 2 of MCLC

MCLC is pleased to announce publication of vol. 36, no. 2 (Dec. 2024). The table of contents appears below with links to abstracts and, in one case (“Pedagogical Engines”), to a full-text pdf. 

Natascha Gentz and Christopher Rosenmeier, editors

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Volume: 36, Number: 2 (December, 2024)

The above issue is now available online.

Note from the Editors
By Natascha Gentz and Christopher Rosenmeier

Promoting Industriousness and Patriotism among Chinese Youth: Lin Shu’s Biography of Two Patriotic Children
By  Zhang Wen and Joseph Ciaudo

Pedagogical Engines: Train Anthropomorphism in 1930s Chinese Children’s Magazines
By  Aolan Mi

Nietzsche’s Übermensch, Lu Xun’s Zhen de ren, and the Emergence of the Anti-fable 
By Eric Hodges and Soraj Hongladarom

In Ceaseless Pursuit of “A Good Art for the Public”: Reinterpreting Lu Xun’s Promotion of Creative Woodcuts in Republican China
By  Wei Wu

Modernist Techniques in Wang Zengqi’s Fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s 
By Tao Peng

The Uneasy Entanglement with the Socialist Legacy: Remapping Avant-Garde Theatre in Post-Socialist China
By Hongjian Wang