Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey. Edited by Pang-Yuan Chi and David Der-Wei Wang. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. xliii, 332 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Abstract

Preface, Pang-yuan Chi Editors' Note Introduction, David Der-wei Wang 1. Farewell to the Gods: Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory's Fin-de-siecle Struggle, Zaifu Liu 2. Taiwan Literature: 1945-1999, Pang-yuan Chi 3. Colonialism, the Cold War, and Marginal Space: The Existential Condition of Five Decades of Hong Kong Literature, William Tay 4. Reinventing National History: Communist and Anti-communist Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century, David Der-wei Wang 5. The School and the Hospital: On the Logics of Socialist Realism, Su Wei 6. Modernism and Its Discontents: Taiwanese Literature in the 1960s, Ko Ch'ing-ming 7. Beyond "Nativist Realism": Taiwan Fiction in the 1970s and 1980s, Yang Chao 8. Searching for Roots: Anticultural Return in Mainland Chinese Literature of the 1980s, Li Qingxi 9. Re-membering the Cultural Revolution: Chinese Avant-garde Literature of the 1980s, Wu Liang 10. Resistance to Modernity: Reflections on Mainland Chinese Literary Criticism in the 1980s, Li Tuo 11. Feminism and Female Taiwan Novelists in the 1980s and 1990s 12. Breaking Open: Chinese Women's Writing the Late 1980s and 1990s, Jingyuan Zhang 13. The Cultural Imaginary of a City: Reading Hong Kong Through Xi Xi, Stephen C. K. Chan 14. Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism/Post-Mao- Dengism?, Xiaobin Yang 15. Death of the Poet: Poetry and Society in Contemporary China and Taiwan, Michelle Yeh Appendix: A Bibliographical Survey of Publications on Chinese Literature from 1949 to 1999, Jeffrey C. Kinkley