Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: History, Memory, and Phantasmal Pasts -- Part I Parody: Traditional Narrative Revamped -- 2 Tradition Redux: Parody and Pathology -- 3 Return to the Primitive: De-Civilized Origins in Han Shaogong's Fiction -- 4 Interlude: The Maoist (Anti)Tradition and the Nationalist (Neo)Tradition -- Part II Citation: Strategies of Intertextual Connection -- 5 The Lyrical and the Local: Shen Congwen, Roots, and Temporality in the Lyrical Tradition -- 6 Tradition in Exile: Allusion and Quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei People -- 7 Back to the Future: Temporality and Cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow -- 8 Globalized Traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The Ancient Capital -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.