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Literature's Modern China: 1635–2066
Literary Memory, Historical Dialogue
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Xu Zidong: In Modern and Contemporary China, Historians Struggle and Literature Flourishes 01. An Exercise in Rethinking Literature, Modernity, and China 02. Literature's Privilege: A Way of Imagining China 03. What Is Time? Literary History's Anxiety over Beginnings and Endings 04. Cries, New Birth, Diaspora: Ten Key Moments in Literary China, Part I 05. Testimony, Disappearance, Memory: Ten Key Moments in Literary China, Part II 06. 1635 | Continuation of Doubts Published: “Modernity” in the Late Ming and a Literati's Literary Revolution 07. Is Literature Useful or Useless? The Answers of Liang Qichao and Wang Guowei | David Der-wei Wang 08. Should Literature Look Backward or Forward? The Answers of Zhang Taiyan and Chen Yan | David Der-wei Wang 09. 1792 | Dream of the Red Chamber Appears and Macartney Visits China: A Vanishing World's Last Dream of Splendor 10. 1807 | Robert Morrison Arrives in Guangzhou: How Did the Chinese Bible Help Bring Modern China into Being? 11. 1820 | Flowers in the Mirror Published: An Early Cry for Women's Liberation 12. 1847 | Yung Wing Travels to New York: The First Overseas Students Bring Western Learning East 13. Repressed Modernity: Without the “Late Qing,” Could There Be a May Fourth? | David Der-wei Wang 14. 1853 | The Tale of Quelling the Bandits Published: Western Devils or Chinese Celestial Masters—Who Will Save the Nation? 15. Hsu Cho-yun: Chinese Knights Fight for Justice, Not the Court | Memories of Literature 16. Hsu Cho-yun: History's Hopes and Encounters with Fiction | Memories of Literature 17. 1891 | Han Bangqing and Sun Yusheng Talk aboard a Ship to Shanghai: Writing for the Public, Everyday, and Local 18. 1899 | Wang Yirong Buys Medicinal “Dragon Bones”: A Fossil Revolution and Modern Discovery among Qing Loyalists 19. 1907 | Qiu Jin Is Executed: A Key Moment for Women Entering Modern Chinese History 20. Xia Xiaohong: What Is the Path to Women's Emancipation? Qiu Jin in Twentieth-Century Literature | Memories of Literature 21. Xia Xiaohong: Qiu Jin Wanted to Be a Heroine, Not a Mother or Wife | Memories of Literature 22. 1908 | On the Power of Mara Poetry and Human Words and Phrases Published: Where Can the Modern Soul Go? 23. 1916 | Hu Shi Falls in Love: A Love Poem Rehearses the “Literary Revolution” 24. Xu Jilin: Hu Shi's Experiment Praised Reason in an Age of Violence | Memories of Literature 25. Xu Jilin: Trust Hu Shi or Lu Xun? Two Choices in Twentieth-Century China | Memories of Literature 26. Xu Jilin: Today's Problems Remain Yesterday's—A Cosmopolitan Revaluation | Memories of Literature 27. 1916 | Li Dazhao on Youth: Political and Literary Youth Enter—and Are Destroyed in—Modern China 28. 1919 | The May Fourth Movement Erupts: The Point of Departure for China's Future and the Absence of New Literature 29. Chen Pingyuan: How Should We View Student Movements? The Day of May Fourth | Memories of Literature 30. Chen Pingyuan: History May Surpass the Ceiling of the May Fourth Generation | Memories of Literature 31. 1923 | Lu Xun Receives a Copy of Call to Arms: Chinese Lives inside the “Iron House” 32. Qian Liqun: Has Chinese National Character Changed after a Century? | Memories of Literature 33. Qian Liqun: What Are Chinese People Saying behind the National Curse “His Mother”? | Memories of Literature 34. Qian Liqun: The World Is Changing Dramatically—Are You Ready? | Memories of Literature 35. 1925 | Mei Lanfang Performs for the Denishawn Tour: Political Turmoil and Artistic Fusion 36. 1927 | Ba Jin Hears of Sacco and Vanzetti's Death: Anarchism in the Twentieth Century 37. 1927 | Wang Guowei Drowns Himself: Dying for the Qing Emperor or for the End of Freedom? 38. 1928 | Miss Sophie's Diary: Tuberculosis as a Woman's “Modern Illness” 39. David Der-wei Wang: Is It Miserable to Be a Woman? Ding Ling's “Xia Village” Experience | Memories of Literature 40. 1930 | 134 Japanese Die at Wushe Elementary School: Are Heirs to National Narratives Both Hunters and Prey? 41. 1934 | Shen Congwen Publishes Border Town: Xiangxi or Gaomi, Lives of Sorrow and Joy Untouched by Modernization 42. 1935 | Ruan Lingyu Takes Poison: In a Vocal China, Who Killed the New Woman? 43. 1935 | Transition Screens in Ding County: How Did Experimental Peasant Theater Become a Political Surprise? 44. 1937 | Ai Qing's Prophetic Dream: How Did War Shape Literature and China? 45. 1938 | Mu Dan Travels West and Auden Comes to China: How Does Modernism Write War? 46. Bonus | Remembering Nieh Hualing: Literature's “United Nations,” Forever Iowa 47. 1938 | Hakka Youth Zhong Lihe Goes to Northeast China: What Are Homeland and Patriotism? 48. Song Weijie: Oleanders of Memory—a Hakka Youth's Northeast and Beiping | Memories of Literature 49. 1940 | Zhou Libo Teaches World Literature in Yan'an: The Liberated Areas before the Rectification Movement 50. 1941 | Eileen Chang Studies in Hong Kong: Human Life and Its Era during World War II 51. 1942 | Xiao Hong Dies: How Can One Live as a Human Being? Women Writers in Wartime China 52. 1945 | Yu Dafu Disappears in Sumatra: What Is Nanyang Literature? 53. Ng Kim Chew: History Is the Work of Collecting and Processing Remains | Memories of Literature 54. Ng Kim Chew × David Der-wei Wang: Why Attend to Nanyang and Its Literature? | Memories of Literature 55. David Der-wei Wang × Ng Kim Chew: Diaspora and Unease—Where Is Nanyang's Homeland? | Memories of Literature 56. 1947 | “Socrates” Visits Beiping: Wartime Intellectuals Imagine China's Future 57. David Der-wei Wang: Shen Congwen's Three Awakenings, Part I | Memories of Literature 58. David Der-wei Wang: Shen Congwen's Three Awakenings, Part II | Memories of Literature 59. 1948 | Xu Nana in the Textbook: Two Imagined Lives amid Twentieth-Century Upheaval 60. David Der-wei Wang × Xu Zidong: What History Book Do You Want? Read White Deer Plain Instead | Memories of Literature 61. David Der-wei Wang × Xu Zidong: When Literature Is Broken Apart and Reassembled, History's Loose Ends Emerge | Memories of Literature 62. David Der-wei Wang × Li Yuyang: In the Century of the Novel, How Did Literature Answer Modernity? | Memories of Literature 63. David Der-wei Wang × Xu Zidong: Today's Literature Still Has Not Escaped Late-Qing Questions | Memories of Literature 64. David Der-wei Wang × Xu Zidong: From Silicon Valley “Servants” to Black Myth: Wukong—Literature in the New Century | Memories of Literature 65. 1952 | Eileen Chang Leaves Mainland China: Crossing Borders, a Mirror of Cold War Literature 66. 1955 | The Book and the Sword Begins Serialization: Understanding the Twentieth Century through Jin Yong 67. 1959 | Liu Qing Publishes The Builders: China in the “Red Classics” 68. 1966 | Fu Lei's Death: Cultural Cosmopolitanism and Its Price 69. 1970 | “Angel Island Poems” Found in California: The Experience of Chinese Workers in America since the Seventeenth Century 70. 1976 | Sanmao Publishes Stories of the Sahara: Chinese Experience in the Age of Globalization 71. 1978 | Today Is Founded: Discipline or Freedom? Underground Literature Comes above Ground 72. 1979 | Qian Zhongshu Visits America: Humanism Reappears and the World of Thought Revives 73. 1979 | Jia Zhifang's “Season of Thaw”: A Cultural Revolution Family Archive of an Intellectual 74. 1979 | Chen Yingzhen Is Arrested: Entering the “White Terror” 75. 1980 | A Tale of Two Cities, The Abandoned Capital and The Old Capital: Where Should We Place History? 76. 1981 | Liang Shiqiu and Tang Lusun: Food as Resistance through Memory 77. 1985 | Han Shaogong Publishes “The Roots of Literature”: The Cultural Turn of the 1980s 78. 1986 | Yu Hua Publishes 1986: How History Drove a Generation of Chinese People Mad 79. 1986 | Cui Jian Performs Nothing to My Name: Finding the Self through Rock 80. 1988 | Shanghai Literary Review Launches “Rewriting Literary History”: Why Is Literary Judgment in China Always Bound to Politics? 81. 1990 | TV Drama Yearnings Airs: Why Did Wang Shuo Give Rise to Popular Culture? 82. 1995 | Teresa Teng Dies: What Does It Mean to Be “Chinese”? 83. 1997 | Pai Hsien-yung's Crystal Boys Is Staged at Harvard: An Ethnography of Gay Men and Mainland Émigrés in Taiwan 84. 1997 | Hong Kong's Handover: How Literature Participates in a City's History and Memory 85. 1999 | Hsia Yu's Salsa Appears: If AI Can Write Poetry 86. 2004 | Wang Anyi Joins Fudan University: Can Chinese Departments Train Writers? 86. 2006 | Jia Zhangke's Still Life Is Released: Where Is Our Homeland? 88. 2008 | Li Yongping Publishes Where the Great River Ends: Malaysian Chinese Literature and an Exiled Generation's Imagined Homeland 89. 2009 | Chi Pang-yuan Publishes The Great Flowing River: A Twentieth-Century Memoir 90. David Der-wei Wang: Why Is Literature a Necessary Commitment in a History Full of Regret? 91. 2012 | Mo Yan Wins the Nobel Prize: The Novel in a Sentimental Age 92. Mo Yan × David Der-wei Wang: Novelists Always Want to Escape Politics | Memories of Literature 93. 2019 | Joy of Life Airs: The Dialectic of “Living” behind Wish-Fulfillment Literature 94. 2024 | To the Wonder Airs: What Are Nonfiction Writing and Frontier Literature? 95. 2066 | Tang Long Travels to an America in Its Second Civil War: Is Science Fiction More Real than Reality?