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Patrick Hanan. The Sea Of Regret : Two Turn-Of-The-Century Chinese Romantic Novels, Jie Lu

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "The Sea of Regret: Two Turn-of-the-Century Chinese Romantic Novels" translated by Patrick Hanan.

Alienation And The Motif Of The Unlived Life In Liu Heng's Fiction, Birgit Linder

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

Critics have long argued that alienation is the essence of modern culture. Having long served as a theme in literature that profoundly reflects the changes and challenges of modernity, alienation has, after a hiatus of a few decades, undergone a conceptual resurgence during the 1990’s as recent research in the West indicates a correlation with the phenomenon of postmodernity. With the breakdown of communism in vast parts of the world and the development toward pluralistic societies, the field of human possibilities has expanded considerably and the response thereof demands, therefore, a new definition of alienation. If previously alienation signified the …

Eileen Chang And Cinema, Ou Fan, Leo Lee

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

The death of Eileen Chang on September 8, 1995 in Los Angeles made headlines in all the Chinese newspapers. In the Chinese-speaking areas of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China, a veritable cult of mystique has been built around her by both public media and the large number of her fans (who called themselves Chang-mi or "Chang-fans”). However, in the last twenty-three years of her life Chang lived quietly and incognito in Los Angeles, shunning all social contact and escaping publicity by constantly changing her residences in numerous hotels, motels, and small apartment houses until her death in an obscure …

Xiaobing Tang. Global Space And The Nationalist Discourse Of Modernity : The Historical Thinking Of Liang Qichao, R. David Arkush

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao" written by Xiaobing Tang.

The "Little Woman" As Exorcist : Notes On The Fiction Of Huang Biyun, Shiu Ming, Joseph Lau

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Yingjin Zhang. The City In Modern Chinese Literature And Film : Configurations Of Space, Time, And Gender, Yi Tsi Mei Feuerwerker

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender" written by Yingjin Zhang.

The Hidden Manchu Literature In Lao She's Writings, Yi Shu

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

Text of a speech given at Texas A & M University in 1994, translated by Britt Towery, Gu Jingyu and Sui Gang.

Gender Geopolitics : Social Space And Volatile Bodies, 1937-1945, Jianmei Liu

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.

Tani E. Barlow, Ed. Gender Politics In Modern China : Writing And Feminism, Shuqin Cui

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "Gender Politics in Modem China: Writing and Feminism", edited by Tani E. Barlow.

許子東 :《當代小說閱讀筆記》, Wing Li Ng

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

此文評論許子東著的《當代小說閱讀筆記》。

Chinese Cinema And Transnational Cultural Politics : Reflections On Film Festivals, Film Productions, And Film Studies, Yingjin Zhang

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This study situates Chinese cinema among three interconnected concerns that all pertain to transnational cultural politics: (1) the impact of international film festivals on the productions of Chinese films and their reception in the West; (2) the inadequacy of the “Fifth Generation” as a critical term for Chinese film studies; and (3) the need to address the current methodological confinement in Western studies of Chinese cinema. By “transnational cultural politics” here I mean the complicated——and at times complicit—ways Chinese films, including those produced in or coproduced with Hong Kong and Taiwan, are enmeshed in “a larger process in which popular- …

Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous Pleasures : Prostitution And Modernity In Twentieth-Century Shanghai, Yue, Madeleine Dong

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai", written by Gail Hershatter.

In Defense Of The Censor : Literary Autonomy And State Authority In Shanghai, 1930-1936, Michel Hockx

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.

Ackbar Abbas. Hong Kong : Culture And The Politics Of Disappearance, Julian Stringer

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance", written by Ackbar Abbas.

盧瑋鑾 :《香港故事——個人回憶與文學思考》, Wai Ying Chan

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

此文評論盧瑋鑾著的《香港故事——個人回憶與文學思考》。

What Did Literary Patronage Mean To An Individualistic Writer In The 1930s : The Case Of Duanmu Hongliang, Haili Kong

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.

The Battlefield Of Cultural Production : Chinese Literary Mobilization During The War Years, Charles A. Laughlin

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.

[From The Editor] : Special Issue : Campaigns, Patronage, Censorship, And Multimedia : The Chinese Literary Scene, 1930-1942 = [編者的話] : 專號 : 運動、資助、審查以及多媒界 : 1930至1942年的中國文壇, Leo, Tak Hung Chan

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.

陳順馨 :《中國當代文學的敘事與性別》, Mei Kuan Cheung

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

此文評論陳順馨著的《中國當代文學的敘事與性別》。

Unwelcome Heroines : Mao Dun And Yu Dafu's Creations Of A New Chinese Woman, Li Chun, Sylvia Lin

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

In this essay, I examine fictional works by two of the most influential and progressive male writers of the period—Mao Dun and Yu Dafu - to explore issues concerning the emergence of the new Chinese woman. My study will focus on Mao Dun’s story, “Chuangzao” [Creation], published in 1928, and Yu Dafu’s short novel, Ta shi yi ge ruo nuzi [She is a weak woman], written in 1932. I look at these writers’ depictions of two different types of woman and contemporary Chinese men’s reactions to a new gender relation. Male intellectuals, while heralding the advance of a new Chinese …

Metafiction, Cannibalism, And Political Allegory : Wineland By Mo Yan, K. K., Kenny Ng

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.

五、六十年代的香港新詩, Shu Sam, William Tay

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.

Xiaomei Chen. Occidentalism : A Theory Of Counter-Discourse In Post-Mao China, Thomas Moran

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China", written by Xiaomei Chen.

Michel Hockx. A Snowy Morning : Eight Chinese Poets On The Road To Modernity, John Crespi

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "A Snowy Morning: Eight Chinese Poets on the Road to Modernity", written by Michel Hockx.

Mao Chen. Between Tradition And Change : The Hermeneutics Of May Fourth Literature, Sarah E. Stevens

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "Between Tradition and Change: The Hermeneutics of May Fourth Literature", written by Mao Chen.

頹廢文化的遺留 : 關於穆時英小說中頹廢女人的形象和意象, Jin Li

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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革命陣營的內部論爭? : 分析1928年革命文學論爭魯迅成為攻擊目標的原因, Wang Chi Wong

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

1928年爆發的“革命文學”論爭，在中國現代文學史和政治史上都有巨大的意義和深遠的影響。它標誌了左翼作家直接參與、干預以至控制現代中國文壇的開始。毛澤東便曾經高度評價過這時期在文化戰線上取得的勝利，這說明了為甚麼“革命文學論爭”在大陸出版的文學史著作及研究中佔了這樣重要的地位。

正由於這個緣故，有關“革命文學論爭”的論述為數不少，但因為政治及意識形態的原因，很多研究文章不但不能解決問題，而且往往引起新的爭論，所以“革命文學論爭”還是有值得深入探究的地方。本文會集中討論一個問題：為甚麼魯迅會成為革命文學派的攻擊目標？

Lydia H. Liu. Translingual Practice : Literature, National Culture, And Translated Modernity : China, 1900-1937, Yi Tsi Mei Feuerwerker

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900-1937", written by Lydia H. Liu.

Siu Wang-Ngai, With Peter Lovrick. Chinese Opera : Images And Stories, Paola Voci

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "Chinese Opera: Images and Stories", written by Siu Wang-ngai, with Peter Lovrick.

Agency Beyond Subjectivity : The Unredeemed Project Of May Fourth Fiction, Deirdre Sabina Knight

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This paper is part of a larger project in which I make a case for the central importance of the problem of free will to considerations of Chinese modernity. I begin by distinguishing between two key aspects of modernity and the Enlightenment: (1) subjectivity, or the realm of consciousness including the capacity for critical reason, and (2) agency, or acting on the world outside consciousness in a way that makes a difference. I then suggest that neglecting the development of rational agency cripples the force of the commitment to human freedom that drives the project of modernity. In calling attention …