China’s Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century

Introduction: China’s New Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Part 1 Re-imagining and Re-thinking History at the Age of Globalization 1. History in a Mythical Key: Temporality, Memory, and Tradition in Wang Anyi’s Fiction 2. National Trauma, Global Allegory: Reconstruction of Collective Memory in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Blue Kite 3. Globalizing Chinese Literature: Toward a Rewriting of Contemporary Chinese Literary Culture 4. The Quest of Ma Lihua, a Han Intellectual in Tibet; Who Is Afraid of Lu Xun?—Politics of ‘Debates about Lu Xun’ (Lu Xun lun zheng) and the Question of His Legacy in Post-Revolution China Part 2 Modern Individuals, High-tech and the City 5. Shanghai Cosmopolitan: Class, Gender and Cultural Citizenship in Weihui’s Shanghai Babe 6. Marketing Chinese Women Writers in the 1990s, or the Politics of Self-Fashioning 7. From Real Time to Virtual Reality: Chinese Cinema in the Internet Age 8. Links with the Past—Mainland China’s Online Literary Communities and their Antecedents 9. Spaces of Disappearance: Aesthetic Responses to Contemporary Beijing City Planning 10. Spectacles of Remembrance: Nostalgia in Contemporary Chinese Art 11. Rewriting Beijing: A Spectacular City in Qiu Huadong’s Urban Fiction