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Embracing the Lie: Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in the People's Republic of China
by Charles J. Alber. 360 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1: Striding into a New Era

2: Leaning to One Side

3: Spies and Secret Agents

4: Elevating the Combative Spirit

5: To Better Serve the People

6: Counterrevolutionaries

7: Rectification, the Prelude

8: The Anti-Rightist Campaign

9: In the Great Northern Wasteland

10: The Three Bitter Years

11: The Cultural Revolution

12: Cowpen

13: In Prison

14: Shanxi Revisited

15: In the Bosom of the Party

16: Interviewing Ding Ling

17: The America That She Saw

18: Eradicating Spiritual Pollution

19: Deathbed Politics

20: The Journal China

21: Epilogue

Appendix I: Letter from Ding Ling to Cao Yümei

Appendix II: Letter to Shanxi Press in Care of Peng Fumin

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Women and Writing in Modern China (Discussion of Ding Ling in several chapters)
by Wendy Larson. 267 pgs.

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Analyzing the protracted cultural debate in modern China over what and how women should write, this book focuses on two concepts of great importance in Chinese literary modernization - the new, liberated woman and the new, autonomous writing. The author argues that in many modernizing countries traditional constrictions of women became a focus of struggle, and improvements in the treatment of women were considered a sign of national health. In China, however, the traditional emphasis on female virtue and male talent led to protests by women writers against the virtuous woman. Their writings emphasized not the modernizing virtues of equality in love and marriage, nor the mother as educator of a generation of nation-builders, but unconventional relationships and the refusal to marry.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1. Women, Writing, and the Discourse of Nationalism

2. Woman, Moral Virtue, and Literary Text

3. the Body and the Text

4. the New Woman and the New Literature

5. Women's Writing and Social Engagement

Conclusion

Reference Matter

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals (Chap. 1 "Gender and Identity in Ding Ling's Mother")
by Michael S. Duke. 276 pgs.

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Introduction: Modern Chinese Women Writers

1. Gender and Identity in Ding Ling's Mother

Notes

2. Fiction and Autobiography: Spatial Form in "The Golden Cangue" and The Woman Warrior

Notes

3: Kingston as Exorcist*

4. Personae: Individual and Society in Three Novels by Chen Ruoxi

Introduction

5. Shapes of Darkness: Symbols in Li Ang's Dark Night

Notes

6. Travelling Together: Narrative Technique in Zhang Jie's "The Ark"

Notes

7. Making It Happen: Aspects of Narrative Method in Zhang Kangkang's "Northern Lights"

Introduction

Notes

8. In Search of Love and Self: the Image of Young Female Intellectuals in Post-Mao Women's Fiction

Conclusions

9. Images of Sexual Oppression in Zhu Lin's Snake's-Pillow Collection

Notes

10. Women, Writers, Social Reform: Three Issues in Shen Rong's Fiction

Notes

11. Fiction's End: Zhang Xinxin's New Approaches to Creativity

Notes

12. Perspective and Spatiality in the Fiction of Three Hong Kong Women Writers

VI. Conclusions

13. Feminist Consciousness in Modern Chinese Male Fiction

Notes

GLOSSARY OF CHINESE NAMES AND TERMS

INDEX

CONTRIBUTORS
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Enduring the Revolution: Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in Guomindang China
by Charles J. Alber. 268 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

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1: Clan and Kin

2: Mother, Daughter and Son

3: The May 4 Movement

4: Freedom, Golden Word!

5: Pin, My Love

6: The Movie Star

7: Miss Sophie

8: The Red and the Black

9: The Big Dipper

10: Kidnapped!

11: Bastion of Peace

12: The Front Service Corps

13: The New Democracy

14: Scenes from Northern Shaanxi

15: On the Sanggan River

16: Travels to Europe

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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A Day, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
by Ding Ling, Gary Bjorge. 3 pgs.

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Modern Chinese Writers: Self-Portrayals ("Foolish Dreams: Like a Blind Person Going Fishing" by Ding Ling begins on p. 302)
by Helmut Martin, Jeffrey Kinkley. 380 pgs.

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Preface

Overview: Chinese Writers on Writing

Retrospective Introduction: Enforced Silence or Émigré Uncertainties: Options for Chinese Writers After A Decade of Experiments and Growth

Notes

Contributors

I: Literature from The People's Republic

Wang Ruowang

Feng Jicai

A Written Testimonial: About the Cultural Revolution

Cong Weixi

I Am Not Solzhenitsyn: From an Eyewitness of the Labor Camps

Dai Houying

On Behalf of Humanism: The Confession of a Former Leftist

Wu Zuguang

Against Those Who Wield The Scissors: A Plea for an End to Censorship

Bai Hua

China's Contemporary Literature: Reaching Out to the World and to the Future

Liu Xinwu

Reflections in the Hot Springs At Hakone: China, Our Impoverished, Trouble-Ridden Motherland

Banished to Xinjiang: Or, About Bestial Hatred of Literature

Chen Rong

Novels Strangled in the Cradle: My Senseless Literary Battles

Lu Wenfu

Spokesman for a Victimized Generation: Can There Be Progress After "Midlife"?

Zhang Xianliang

After Twenty Years of Silence We Lick Our Wounds: Our Battle for a Place in World Literature

Gao Xiaosheng

Thrusts of Violent Creativity: "I Returned with My Hands Empty And Shame on My Face"

Gu Hua

The Slow Maturation of My Craft: Tea in Cold Water Steeps Slowly

Jia Pingwa

Life is Changing: Even in Hilly Shangzhou

Zhong Acheng

The First Half of My Life: A Boy from the City Struggling For Survival in Far-Away Yunnan

Zhang Jie

The Boat I Steer: A Study in Perseverance

Wang Anyi

Needed: A Spirit of Courageous Self-Examination

Liu Binyan

Is Reportage to Be Excluded: From the Realm of Literature? The Function of Warning Bells

Zhang Xinxin

A "Bengal Tigress" Interviews Herself: A Panorama of Our Times from Within

Han Shaogong

After the "Literature Of the Wounded": Local Cultures, Roots, Maturity, and Fatigue

Wang Zengqi

We Must Not Forget Our Historical Roots: Popular Literature, Peking Opera, And Modern Prose

Zhang Xinxin

The "June 4 Syndrome": Spiritual and Ideological Schizophrenia

II: Without a Regime Or a Regimen: Entertainment Fiction

Jin Yong

Against the Authors of "Foreign Books in Chinese Language": An Interview with China's Most Popular Writer Of Adventure Novels

III: Chinese Literature From Taiwan

Bai Xianyong

Chen Ruoxi

On the Miseries of Writers In American Exile: Sanitized Versions for Taiwan, Hong Kong, And the People's Republic

Wang Wenxing

Such a Symphony of Written Characters One Must Not Allow To Disperse

Qideng Sheng

How Love Scatters: On the Publication of The First Collection of My Works

Huang Chunming

Father's Writings Have Been Republished: Or, the Sexuality of Women Students in a Taibei Bookstore

Wang Zhenhe

Things Chinese and Foreign, Ancient and Modern: An Absurd Comedy

Chen Yingzhen

Against Taiwan's "Orphan Mentality": The Author as His Own Critic

Wang Tuo

Native Literature as a Stimulus For Social Change: From a Writing Career to Political Activism

Song Zelai

Cold Ashes in the Heart: The Tragedy of Taiwanese Literature

Lin Shuangbu

Concern About the Native Land On the Taking of a Pseudonym

Huang Fan

From Taibei's Suburbs: Into the Hubbub of Taiwan's Economic Miracle

Li Ang

Protest of a Woman Author Against Reckless Accusations: Another Self-Interview, This Time from Taibei

Vanished Virility: Stories--My Last Remaining Castle

IV: The Republican Era Revisited

Lao She

Suppressed Furor Against Foreign Troops: An Unwritten Novel and a Play About the Boxer Uprising

Lu Xun

A Literary Outcry: Awakening from Unconsciousness

Ba Jin

Mao Dun

Shanghai's Silk Industry: World Economic Crisis, Workers, and Civil War

Shen Congwen

Fiction and Society: Changes and Continuities in Mass Audiences

Zhang Ailing

International Shanghai, 1941: Coffee House Chat About Sexual Intimacy And the Childlike Charm of the Japanese

Ding Ling

Foolish Dreams: Like a Blind Person Going Fishing

Yu Dafu

Early Autobiographical Fragments:: A Young Sojourner in a Foreign Land

Glossary

Translators and Writers Translated

Bibliographies

Index
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Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian (Chap. 3 "Shanghai, Spring 1930: Engendering the Revolutionary Body")
by Xiaobing Tang. 380 pgs.

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Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People's Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic, the collapse of the idea of utopia in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and the gradual cannibalization of the socialist past by consumer culture at the century's end. Throughout, he highlights the dynamic tension between everyday life and the heroic ideal.
Tang uncovers crucial clues to modern Chinese literary and cultural practices through readings of Wu Jianren's 1906 novel The Sea of Regret and works by canonical writers Lu Xun, Ding Ling, and Ba Jin. For the mid-century, he broadens his investigation by considering theatrical, cinematic, and visual materials in addition to literary texts. His reading of the 1963 play The Young Generation reveals the anxiety and terror underlying the exhilarating new socialist life portrayed on the stage. This play, enormously influential when it first appeared, illustrates the utopian vision of China's lyrical age and its underlying discontents -- both of which are critical for understanding late-twentieth-century China. Tang closes with an examination of post-Cultural Revolution nostalgia for the passion of the lyrical age.
Throughout Chinese Modern Tang suggests a historical and imaginative affinity between apparently separate literatures and cultures. He thus illuminates not only Chinese modernity but also the condition of modernity as a whole, particularly inlight of the postmodern recognition that the market and commodity culture are both angel and devil. This elegantly written volume will be invaluable to students of China, Asian studies, literary criticism, and cultural studies,

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Post-Contemporary Interventions

Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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1: Trauma and Passion in the Sea of Regret: the Ambiguous Beginnings of Modern Chinese Literature

2: Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" and a Chinese Modernism

Excursion I: Beyond Homesickness: an Intimate Reading of Lu Xun's "My Native Land"

3: Shanghai, Spring 1930: Engendering the Revolutionary Body

4: The Last Tubercular in Modern Chinese Literature: on Ba Jin's Cold Nights

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5: The Lyrical Age and Its Discontents: on the Staging of Socialist New China in the Young Generation

6: Residual Modernism: Narratives of the Self in the I980s

7: The Mirror of History and History as Spectacle: Reflections on Xiao Ye and Su Tong

8: In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijing and the Politics of Vision

9: New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Late Twentieth-Century China

Excursion II: Decorating Culture: Notes on Interior Design, Interiority, and Interiorization

10: Melancholy Against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi's Tales of Sorrow

Afterword

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism ("Ding Ling: From Women To Revolution" begins on p. 66)
by Tani E. Barlow. 314 pgs.

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Foreword

Introduction

The Language of Despair:: Ideological Representations of the "New Woman" by May Fourth Writers

Works Cited

Invention and Intervention: the Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature

The End of "Funü Wenxue": Women's Literature from 1925 to 1935

Works Cited

Woman as Trope: Gender and Power in Lu Xun's "Soap"

Works Cited

Virtuous Transactions: a Reading of Three Stories by Ling Shuhua

Glossary

Images of Subjugation and Defiance: Female Characters in the Early Dramas of Tian Han

Glossary

Female Images and National Myth

Writing with Your Body: Literature as a Wound-- Remarks on the Poetry of Shu Ting

Glossary

Glossary

Harmony and Equality: Notes on "Mimosa" and "Ark"

Three Interviews: Wang Anyi, Zhu Lin, Dai Qing

Glossary

In the Translator's Eye: on the Significance of Zhu Lin

Yuan Qiongqiong and the Rage for Eileen Zhang Among Taiwan's Feminine Writers

Glossary

Taking Tiger Mountain: Can Xue's Resistance and Cultural Critique

Feminism in the Chinese Context: LI Ang's the Butcher's Wife

Works Cited

Glossary

Political Evaluation and Reevaluation in Contemporary Chinese Fiction

Notes on Contributors

Index
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Re-Encounters in China: Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule ("Ting Ling" begins on p. 76)
by Harold R. Isaacs. 198 pgs.

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Preface

Time Capsule In Shanghai: October 1980

Mao Tun: October 16

About Lu Hsun: October 19

Chen Han-Seng: October 20

Wang Hsin-Ti

Wu Chiang: October 24

Chen Yi

Of The Larger Politics

A Note On Some Readings

Romanizations
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Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949 (Ting Ling" begins on p. 266)
by Joseph S. M. Lau, C. T. Hsia, Leo Ou-Fan Lee. 586 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

Lu HsÜn (1881-1936)

K'Ung I-Chi

Medicine

My Old Home

The New Year's Sacrifice

In the Wine Shop

Soap

HsÜ Ti-Shan (1893-1941)

The Merchant's Wife

Yü-Kuan

Yeh Shao-Chün (1894-)

Rice by Yeh Shao-Chün

Solitude

Horse-Bell Melons

Autumn by Yeh Shao-Chün

YÜ Ta-Fu (1896-1945)

Sinking by Yü Ta-Fu

Mao Tun (1896-1981)

Spring Silkworms

Lao She (1899-1966)

An Old Tragedy in a New Age

Ling Shu-Hua (1904- )

Embroidered Pillows

The Night of Midautumn Festival

Jou Shih (1901-1931)

Slave-Mother

Shen Ts'Ung-Wen (1902- )

Pai-Tzu

Hsiao-Hsiao

The Lamp

Quiet

Three Men and One Woman

Ting Ling (1907- )

When I Was in Hsia Village

In the Hospital

Pa Chin (1904- )

Nanny Yang by Pa Chin

The General by Pa Chin

Sinking Low by Pa Chin

Piglet and Chickens

Chao Shu-Li (1906-1970)

Lucky

Chang T'Ien-I (1906- )

The Bulwark

Midautumn Festival

Hsiao ChÜn (190- )

Goats

Wu Tsu-Hsiang (1908 -)

Young Master Gets His Tonic

Let There Be Peace

Fan Village

Ch'Ien Chung-Shu (1910- )

The Inspiration

Souvenir

Hsiao Hung (1911-1942)

Hands

The Family Outsider

Tuan-Mu Hung-Liang (1912- )

The Faraway Wind and Sand

The Rapid Current of the Muddy River by Tuan-Mu Hung-Liang

Lu Ling (1913- )

The Coffins

Eileen Chang (1921-)

The Golden Cangue

Selected Bibliography of Modern Chinese Fiction

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Translators and Contributors

Checklist of Authors, Dates, and Chinese Titles
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Revolutionary Literature in China: An Anthology ("Introduction to Ding Ling's 'A Day'" begins on p. 52)
by John David Berninghausen, Ted Huters. 108 pgs.

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Introductory Essay

Introduction to Zhou Shou-Juan's "We Shall Meet Again" And Two Denunciations of This Type of Story

We Shall Meet Again

A Literature of Blood and Tears

Introduction to Ye Sheng-Tao's "On the Bridge'

On the Bridrge

Introduction to Guo Mo-Ruo's "Revolution and Literature"

Revolution and Literature

Introduction to Cheng Fang-Wu's "From a Literary Revolution To a Revolutionary Literature"

From a Literary Revolution To a Revolutionary Literature

From Guling to Tokyo

Introduction to Qu Qiu-Bai's "Who's 'We'?" and "The Question Of Popular Literature and Art"

Who's "We"?

The Question of Popular Literature and Art

Notes

Introduction to Ding Ling's "A Day"

A Day

Introduction to Mao Dun's "In Front of the Pawnshop"

Notes

In Front of The Pawnshop

Introduction to Zhang Tian-Yi's "Hatred"

Hatred

Introduction to Ma Ke's "Man and Wife Learn to Read"

Notes

Man and Wife Learn to Read

Introduction To Qin Zhao-Yang's "Silence"

Introduction to Zhou Li-Bo's: "The Guest"

The Guest

Debut

Short Annotated Bibliography

Contributors

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