Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century

Fifteen important essays on the complex network of Chinese literature since 1949.

Presents a preliminary survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. This title introduces figures, works, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century. It depicts the enunciative endeavours that inform the polyphonic discourse of Chinese cultural politics.

" . . . an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." — Choice

"This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949 . . . discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and societal issues in modern Chinese literature." —Library Journal

This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the enunciative endeavors, ranging from ideological treatises to avant-garde experiments, that inform the polyphonic discourse of Chinese cultural politics; (3) to observe the historical factors that enacted the interplay of literary (post)modernities across the Chinese communities in the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas.