Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Country and City -- 1. Visitation of the Past in Han Shaogong's Post-1985 Fiction -- 2. Past, Present, and Future in Mo Yan's Fiction of the 1980s -- 3. Shen Congwen's Legacy in Chinese Literature of the 1980s -- 4. Imaginary Nostalgia: Shen Congwen, Song Zelai, Mo Yan, and Li Yongping -- 5. Urban Exoticism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature -- II Subjectivity and Gender -- 6. Text, Intertext, and the Representation of the Writing Self in Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, and Wang Meng -- 7. Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature -- 8. Living in Sin: From May Fourth via the Antirightist Movement to the Present -- III Narrative Voice and Cinematic Vision -- 9. Lu Xun's Facetious Muse: The Creative Imperative in Modern Chinese Fiction -- 10. Lives in Profile: On the Authorial Voice in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature -- 11. Melodramatic Representation and the "May Fourth" Tradition of Chinese Cinema -- 12. Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the Children -- Afterword: Reflections on Change and Continuity in Modern Chinese Fiction -- Notes -- Contributors.