Chinese Modern,9780822324478

Chinese Modern

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ISBN13: 9780822324478
ISBN10: 0822324474
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary

"Read "Chinese Modern" for a journey through China's 'long twentieth century.' Xiaobing Tang as guide shows how imaginative sympathy for one's subject nourishes critical acuity."--Norma Field, University of Chicago

Author Biography

Xiaobing Tang is an Associate Professor in Modern Chinese Literature, University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(10)
PART I
Trauma and Passion in The Sea of Regret: The Ambiguous Beginnings of Modern Chinese Literature
11(38)
Lu Xun's ``Diary of a Madman'' and a Chinese Modernism
49(48)
Beyond Homesickness: An Intimate Reading of Lu Xun's ``My Native Land''
74(23)
Shanghai, Spring 1930: Engendering the Revolutionary Body
97(34)
The Last Tubercular in Modern Chinese Literature: On Ba Jin's Cold Nights
131(32)
PART II
The Lyrical Age and Its Discontents: On the Staging of Socialist New China in The Young Generation
163(33)
Residual Modernism: Narratives of the Self in the 1980s
196(29)
The Mirror of History and History as Spectacle: Reflections on Xiao Ye and Su Tong
225(20)
In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijing and the Politics of Vision
245(28)
New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Late-Twentieth-Century China
273(43)
Decorating Culture: Notes on Interior Design, Interiority, and Interiorization
295(21)
Melancholy Against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi's Tales of Sorrow
316(25)
Afterword 341(8)
Glossary 349(8)
Selected Bibliography 357(12)
Index 369

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