This collection of essays addresses the perception that our
understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the
literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative
study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex
subject of China's literary, theoretical, and cultural responses to
the experience of the modern.
With chapters by writers, scholars, and critics from mainland
China, Hong Kong, and the United States, this volume explores the
complexity of representing modernity within the Chinese context.
Addressing the problem of finding a proper language for
articulating fundamental issues in the historical experience of
twentieth-century China, the authors critically re-examine notions
of realism, the self/subject, and modernity and draw on
perspectives from feminist criticism, ideological analysis, and
postmodern theory. Among the many topics explored are subjectivity
in Chinese cultural theory, Chinese gender relations, the viability
of a Lacanian approach to Chinese identity, the politics of
subversion in Chinese reportage, and the ambivalent status of the
icon of paternity since Mao.
At the same time this book offers a probing look into the
transformation that Chinese culture as well as the study of that
culture is currently undergoing, it also reconfirms private
discourse as an ideal site for an investigation into a real and
imaginary, private and collective encounter with history.
"Contributors." Liu Kang, Xiaobing Tang, Liu Zaifu, Stephen
Chan, Lydia H. Liu, Wendy Larson, Theodore Huters, David Wang,
Tonglin Lu, Yingjin Zhang, Yuejin Wang, Li Tuo, Leo Ou-fan
Lee
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