Contending for the "Chinese Modern": The Writing of Fiction in the Great Transformative Epoch of Modern China, 1937-1949

Contents
Acknowledgment
Figures
Introduction
	1 Debates of the Origin of Chinese Modernity and Its Substance
	2 Semicolonialism and Modernist Writing
	3 Field of Cultural Production and Literature as Social Institution
	4 The Problematic of Historicity and Political Hermeneutics
	5 Fictional Writing in the Great Transformative Epoch of 1940s China
	6 Chinese Modernity in Ordeal: New Culture, New Youth, New Women
	7 Literary Modernity and Modernization of “Modern Chinese Literature”
	8 Structural Outline
Part 1 Negotiating with the Nightmarish Modern
	Introduction
		1 General Cultural Production in the Occupied Area
		2 Some Thoughts on the Origin of Modern Chinese Literature
		3 Zhang Henshui’s Early Efforts at Modernization of Chinese Fiction
	Chapter 1 Aborted Dreams of “New Women”: Xiao Hong and Mei Niang
		1 A Homeless Soul and a Misplaced Nostalgia: Exiled Experience and Xiao Hong’s War-Time Diasporic Literature
		2 Articulating the Disenchantment of Colonial Modernity: Mei Niang’s Representation of the Predicament of Chinese New Women
	Chapter 2 Matrimonial Syndrome in a Besieged Society: Identity Complex in Eileen Chang’s “Boudoir Stories”
		1 Individualism in Crisis and Cultural Nihilism
		2 Identity Politics and the Political Unconscious in Writing “Triviality”
Part 2 Rethinking the Disintegrated Modern
	Introduction
		1 The Restructuration of the Field of Cultural Production
		2 The Diversified Writings of Fiction
		3 Hu Feng’s Theory of “Subjective Fighting Spirit”
	Chapter 3 Alienated Minds Dreaming for Integration: Constrained Cosmopolitanism in Wumingshi’s and Xu Xu’s “Modern Literati Novel”
		1 Wumingshi’s Middle Class Romance and “Anti-Bildungsroman”
		2 Xu Xu’s “Modern Tales of the Strange”
	Chapter 4 “Subjectivity” and Class Consciousness: Intellectual’s Predicament and Lu Ling’s “Neo-Leftist Stories”
		1 Individualism and Aborted Bildungsroman: the Cultural Politics of Lu Ling’s Stories in 1940s China
		2 Politics of Recognition and Politics of Style: a Reading of Children of the Rich with Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind
Part 3 Contending for a “New Democratic Modern”
	Introduction
		1 The “Cultural Field” of Yan’an, Its Political Economy and Production
		2 Forging a New Cultural-Political Nation: from “Use of Old Forms” to “Establishment of a National Form”
		3 Re-integration of Culture and Politics: a Re-interpretation of Mao’s“Yan’an Talks”
	Chapter 5 “Problem Stories” as Part of the “National Form”: Rural Society in Transition and Zhao Shuli’s “Peasant Stories”
		1 Rural Society in Transition and the “Standing Up” of the Masses
		2 The “Alternative Modernity” of the Storytelling and Its Paradox
	Chapter 6 From Feminist to Party’s Intellectual? Identity (Trans-)formation and Ding Ling’s “New Woman Stories”
		1 From an Anarchistic “New Woman” to a Cultural Worker for the Masses
		2 Ambiguities and Contradictions in Creating a “New Revolutionary Culture”
Conclusion
References
Index