The modern Chinese literary essay

Introduction by Martin Woesler, University of Mainz, Germany The Freedom of Intellectual Exchange pp 13-14 Preface: The Flourishing of the Chinese Essay pp 15-16 Keynote: “Let us Assign the Essay its Proper Place in Chinese Literature” pp 17-26 The Emergence of the Modern Chinese Essay: Precursors and Influences of a Major Literary Form The Aesthetic of Marginalism and the Impact of the West on the Chinese Essay by Martin Woesler, University of Mainz, Germany, pp 29-42 The Modern Essay and Urban Culture in The Republican Period Formation of Modern Subjectivity and Essay: Zhou Shoujuan’s “In the Nine-Flower Curtain” pp 43-68 by Jianhua Chen, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Eileen Chang and the Modern Essay by Nicole Huang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, pp 69-100 Perspectives on Ideology in the Essay Zhu Ziqing, Frantz Fanon, and the Fierce White Children by Daniel A. Fried, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, pp 101-116 Incongruous Lyricism: Liu Baiyu, Yang Shuo and sanwen in Chinese Socialist Culture by Charles A. Laughlin, Yale University, New Haven, USA, pp 117-132 The Author's Self in Essays of Place and in Qian Zhongshu's Criticism A Reading of Traditional Gestures in Modern Chinese Essays of Place by Alexandra R. Wagner, Yale University, New Haven, USA, pp 135-148 Qian Zhongshu's Essays by Hong Yu, University of Münster, Germany, pp 149-176 Cultural Polemics in Contemporary China From Historical Narrative to the World of Prose: The Essayistic Mode in Contemporary Chinese Literature by Ban Wang, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, USA, pp 177-192 Mulish Essays: the Genre of Zawen in Contemporary China by Mary Scoggin, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA, pp 193-214 Nostalgia without Memory: Reading Zhang Wei's Essays by Jie Lu, University of the Pacific, Stockton, USA, pp 215-230 Deciphering the Populist Gadfly: Cultural Polemic around Zhang Chengzhi's “Religious Sublime” by Xinmin Liu, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA, pp 231-240 Discussion of this chapter: The xiaopin wen between xianshi sanwen and zawen by King-Fai Tam, Trinity College, Hartford, USA, pp 241-246 Regional Perspectives: Taiwan and Hong Kong The Changing Character of the Essay Subgenres by Ming-Lee Cheng, Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, pp 247-290 The Short Miscellaneous Essay with Hong Kong Characteristics by Wai Leung Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, pp 291-310 Overview of the Contemporary Essay by Martin Woesler, University of Mainz, Germany The 20th Century Chinese Essay - Characteristics, Actors, and Trends, pp 311-328 A Survey of the Genre and New Insights Into the Essayists Ba Jin, Zhou Zuoren, Zhu Ziqing, pp 329-340 Modern Chinese Literature and the Essay Genre: A New Perspective, pp 341-360 Contributors pp 361-372 Index pp 373-379