Acknowledgment
Some sections of the chapters in this book have been published in distinguished international academic journals. They had undergone minor revisions before being included here. I would like to thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their comments and advice. I would also like to thank the journals mentioned for providing permission to reprint their materials in this book.
Part of the Introduction has appeared as “Three Trends in Recent Studies of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture,” in China Perspectives, 4(80) (2009), pp.118–126.
Part of the Introduction of Part One has appeared as “The Problematic of ‘High (-brow) Literature’ and ‘Low (-brow) Literature’ ”: Some Thoughts on the Origin of Modern Chinese Literature,” in Frontier of Literary Studies in China, vol.7, no.1. 2013, pp.117–141.
Section Two of the first chapter has appeared as “Articulating the (Dis-)Enchantment of Colonial Modernity: Mei Niang’s Representation of the Predicament of Chinese ‘New Women,’ ” in Tulsa Studies on Women’s Literature, vol.34, no.2, 2015, pp.333–353.
Part of the first section in Chapter Two has appeared as “Eileen Chang’s Cross-Cultural Writing and Rewriting in Love in a Fallen City,” in Comparative Literature Studies, vol.49, no.4, 2012, pp.565–584.
Part of the second section in Chapter Two has appeared as “Matrimonial Complex and Identity Anxiety: A Psycho-Political Reading of Zhang Ailing’s ‘Boudoir Stories’,” in Journal of Cambridge Studies, vol.7, no 1, 2012, pp.100–119.
Part of the Introduction of Part Two has appeared as “Subjectivity and Realism: The Cultural Politics of Hu Feng’s Theory of ‘Subjective Fighting Spirit’,” in Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, vol.40, no.2, 2012, pp.215–234.
Part of the first section in Chapter Three has appeared as “An Alienated Mind Dreaming for Integration: Constrained Cosmopolitanism in Wumingshi’s ‘Modern Literati Novel’,” in Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, vol.2., no.4, 2012. pp.425–438.
Part of the second section in Chapter Three has appeared as “Cosmopolitanism in Ordeal: Cultural Reveries and Political Anxieties in Xu Xu’s ‘Modern Tales of the Strange,’” in Telos, Fall 2017 (180), pp.147–165.
Section Two of the Introduction of Part Three has appeared as “From ‘Use of Old Forms’ to ‘Establishment of a National Form’: A Re-evaluation of Mao’s Agenda of Forging a Cultural-Political Nation,” in International Critical Thought, vol.2, no.2, 2012, pp.183–196.
Section Three of the Introduction of Part Three has appeared as “Re-integration of Culture and Politics: A Re-interpretation of Mao Zedong’s ‘Yan’an Talks’,” in Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, vol.45, no.3, 2017, pp.387–407.
Part of the first section in Chapter Five has appeared as “ ‘Problem Stories’ as part of the ‘National Form:’ Rural Society in Transition and Zhao Shuli’s Peasant Stories,” in Frontier of Literary Studies in China, vol.6, no.2, 2012, pp.208–231.
Part of Chapter Six has appeared as “From Feminist to Party Intellectual? Identity Politics and Ding Ling’s Stories,” in Harvard Asia Quarterly, vol.17, no.2, 2012, pp.35–43.
Two dozens of the Chinese version of the different parts of the book have appeared as articles published in the following journals: 文学评论 [Literary Critique], 文艺理论研究 [Studies of Literary and Art Theory], 中国现代文学研究丛刊 [Modern Chinese Literature Studies], 中国比较文学 [Comparative Literature in China], 中国文学研究 [Studies of Chinese Literature], 厦门大 学学报 [Journal of Xiamen University], 烟台大学学报[Journal of Yantai University], 求索 [Seeking], 现代中文学刊 [Studies of Modern Chinese Culture], among others.
The manuscript is based on my dissertation of the same title, which I completed in the University of Texas at Austin in the year of 2010; and I submitted half of it for the oral defense. I would like to thank Professor Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, the supervisor, for her guidance and suggestions. I also would like to thank the other committee members, including Professor Huaiyin Li, Professor Lynn R. Wilkinson, Professor Martha Selby and Professor Xudong Zhang, for their helpful advice.