Introduction 1
Part Ⅰ．Realism Unbounded 25
Chapter One A Homeless Soul and a Misplaced Nostalgia Exiled Experience and Xiao Hong's Diasporic Literature 27
Chapter Two From Feminist to Party Intellectual?Identity Politics and Ding Ling's"New Women Stories" 61
Part Ⅱ．Romanticism,Modernism,or Modern Literati's Novel? 85
Chapter Three An Alienated Mind Dreaming for Integration:Constrained Cosmopolitanism in Wumingshi's "Modern Literati Novel" 87
Chapter Four Illusionary Cosmopolitanism and Flawed Humanity:A New Interpretation of Xu Xu's"Modern Tales of the Strange" 114
Part Ⅲ．Cross-Cultural Transaction in"Boudoir Stories" 135
Chapter Five Eileen Chang's Cross-Cultural Writing and Rewriting in Love in a Fallen City 137
Chapter Six Matrimonial Complex and Identity Anxiety:Eileen Chang's"Boudoir Stories"and the(Irn)Possibility of Modern Chinese Bourgeoisie 164
Part Ⅳ．Narrative Strategy under Middle-Class Consciousness 191
Chapter Seven Double Pitfalls for Chinese"New Women":Mei Niang's Fictional Narrative of the Colonial Society 193
Chapter Eight Making a Historical Fable:The Narrative Strategy of Lust,Caution and Its Social Repercussions 222
Part Ⅴ．Peasants'Habitus and"National Form" 249
Chapter Nine "Problem Stories as Part of the National Form:"Rural Society in Transition and Zhao Shuli's Peasant Stories 251
Chapter Ten From"Use of Old Forms"to"Establishment of a National Form":A Re-Evaluation of Mao's Agenda of Forging a Cultural-Political Nation 282
Conclusion 307
Some Thoughts on the Origin of Modern Chinese Literature 307
References 347