Contending for the "Chinese modern" : : the writing of fiction in the great transformative epoch of modern China 1937-1949 / / by Wang Xiaoping.
In Contending for the \'Chinese Modern\' , Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. Through a practice of political hermeneutics of fictional texts and social subtexts, it explores how social modernity and literary modernity intertwined with and interacted upon each oth...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019] |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ideas, History, and Modern China
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (616 pages). |
| Notes: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2010. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgment
- Figures
- Introduction
- Negotiating with the Nightmarish Modern
- Introduction
- Aborted Dreams of “New Women”: Xiao Hong and Mei Niang
- Matrimonial Syndrome in a Besieged Society: Identity Complex in Eileen Chang’s “Boudoir Stories”
- Rethinking the Disintegrated Modern
- Introduction
- Alienated Minds Dreaming for Integration: Constrained Cosmopolitanism in Wumingshi’s and Xu Xu’s “Modern Literati Novel”
- “Subjectivity” and Class Consciousness: Intellectual’s Predicament and Lu Ling’s “Neo-Leftist Stories”
- Contending for a “New Democratic Modern”
- Introduction
- “Problem Stories” as Part of the “National Form”: Rural Society in Transition and Zhao Shuli’s “Peasant Stories”
- From Feminist to Party’s Intellectual? Identity (Trans-)formation and Ding Ling’s “New Woman Stories”
- Conclusion
- Back Matter
- References
- Index.