A Cultural History of Modern Chinese Literature

Table of Contents

• List of illustrations
• List of maps
• List of tables
• Introduction to the English edition David Der-wei Wang
• Preface
• Part I. Promise of New Opportunities:
• 1. Wangping Street – Fuzhou Road: change of the scene of Chinese literature
• 2. Vernacular newspapers and transformation of the written language of literature
• 3. Earliest intellectuals with global outlook
• 4. The 'new literary style' movement, a political motion in origin
• 5. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1903 (an era of literary accumulation)
• 6. The rising of urban popular novels in an emerging international trading centre
• 7. Emerging elites of the south society
• 8. From Suzhou and Yangzhou to Shanghai: literature of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly Literary School
• Part II. The May Fourth Enlightenment Movement:
• 9. Introduction of spoken drama into China: the earliest theatre performances
• 10. Building a bridge to world literature
• 11. Incubation of a literary revolution home and abroad
• 12. Rise of radicals from the New Youth and Peking University and Conservatives' Counter Claims
• 13. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1921 (an era of literary enlightenment)
• 14. A literary niche created by newspapers, magazines and publishing houses of Beijing and Shanghai
• 15. Leading breakthroughs in modern vernacular poetry and short stories
• 16. A history of the dissemination and acceptance of 'The True Story of Ah Q'
• 17. 'Yu Si', 'casual talks' and vernacular prose style
• 18. Discovery of peasants and local colours by earlier native-soil literature
• 19. Literary solace for urban citizens
• Part III. The Coexistence of Diverse Types of Literature:
• 20. To the South: the return of literary centre
• 21. Popularity, deepening and disputes of the left-wing literature
• 22. Novels strongly characteristic of the era
• 23. The successive boom of era-specific and individualized literary writings
• 24. The graceful beauties of Belles-lettres by Beijing School Authors
• 25. The new sensations of Shanghai School in the modern metropolis
• 26. The literary horizon of two types of civilian society
• 27. The professional theatre spoken drama in its mature stage
• 28. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1936 (an era of diversification)
• 29. Interactions between cinematographic art and literature
• 30. Timely and overall embrace of world literature
• Part IV. Under the Clouds of War:
• 31. Forming of multiple literary centres under the clouds of war
• 32. Intellectuals' economic conditions and their writing lifestyle
• 33. Chongqing: national salvation literature, from boom to split
• 34. Yan'an: from the wartime art and literature for the masses to the guiding principle of art and literature for workers, peasants and soldiers
• 35. Guilin: the upsurge of theatre and publishing phenomenon of the wartime 'cultural city'
• 36. Kunming: reflections on personal experience of the era
• 37. Shanghai and others: the pain of homelessness and the roundabout development of urban popular literature
• 38. Hong Kong and Taiwan: separation, autonomy and growth of new literature
• 39. From peasants to urban citizens: new momentum for the development of popular literature
• 40. Chronicle of literary events in the year 1948 (an era of transition)
• Select bibliography
• Index.
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