Introduction&Liu Yan 1
Part Ⅰ．British Fiction:New Readings of Classics 11
Passions and Betrayals:A Postcolonial Rereading of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom:A Triumph&Mao Sihui 11
In Search of Lost Romance—On the Emotional Life of Stevens in The Remains of the Day&Ma Jianjun 29
The Troubled Self:A Study of Gender Relations in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers&Terry Siu-han Yip 35
From Mrs. Dalloway to The Hours:Rethinking the Relations Between Women and Feminism&Qiu Xiaoqing 45
A Comparative Study on"Clay"and"Miss Brill"&Dai Guiyu 54
Anti-Colonialism in Heart ofDarkness&Ji Junjun 59
A Metaphorical Reading of E.M.Forster's A Passage to India&Du Yinyin 65
Rereading Britain Anthology:Jane Austen,"Englishness"and Authorship-as-sign&Julianne Pidduck 72
An Archetypal Reading of Tess&Huang Jiaxiu 83
Desire and Disillusionment—A Lacanian Reading of Jude the Obscure&Zhan Junfeng 90
Determinism in Eliot's The Mill on the Floss&Zhang Xin 102
Australia:a Promising Land in Victorian Novels&Li Fangmu 111
Part Ⅱ．British Poetry and Drama:Certainties and Ambiguities 119
Being Female and Being a Poet:Unique Territories and Concerns of Women's Poetry&Wang Hong 119
Imagery in Shakespeare's Sonnets&Liu Humin 127
God,Imagination＆Crow—The Revisional God in the Poems of Blake and Hughes&Fu JingJing 133
The Dubious Identity of Ruth in Pinter's The Homecoming&Liu Yan 143
The Use of Brecht's A-effect in Churchill's Cloud Nine&Jin Lili 154
The Success of a Non-drama as Drama:The Concrete＆Conscious Expression of Existentialism in Waiting for Godot&Jiao Min 163
George Bernard Shaw's Representation of Women—A Feminist Reading of Mrs. Warren's Profession&Mai Gang 173
Part Ⅲ．British Society:Now and Then 185
Englishness,Hybridity and Postcolonial Britain&Kwok-kan Tam 185
Cohabitation in Britain&Tan Zhi 199
V.S. Naipaul's Changing England in The Enigma of Arrival&Zhu Ying 207
Rereading the Scottish National Identity Through the William Wallace Tales&Zhan Cheng 216
Strategic Communications—A Case Study of Labour Victory in the '97 General Election&Zhao Yinong 228
The Recent Developments in the Teaching and Learning of UK Higher Education Institutions&Li Zirong 240
Part Ⅳ．British Popular Culture:Strategies vis-à-vis Changes 253
The Singularity of the English Sense of Humour&Scott Wi lson 253
Celebrity,Reality and Surveillance:Contemporary Trends in British Popular Culture with Special Reference to TV&Ruth Cherrington 273
Very Un-British Films:Michael Winterbottom and the Cinema of Incompatibility&Bruce Bennett 285
The Full Monty:Reaction to or against Feminism?&Zhuang Qing 300
Continuity and Change—British Working-class Screen Image in the 1990s&Shi Tongyun 310
BBC's Dilemma in a Globalized Media Market&Wang Ke 321
Internet Censorship in the United Kingdom—The Role of Self-regulation&Zhang Xiaoying 333
Part Ⅴ．British Literature and Culture in China:Affinities and Differences 349
Teaching Shakespeare in Chinese Universities&He Qixin 349
The Changing Face of the Teaching Profession:Motivating Students Attending the British Culture Survey Course&Yu Weihua 357
An Empirical Study of Teaching English Literature to Non-English Majors in China&Gao Lili 373
"Accomplished with That We Lack":Female Cross-Dressing on the Stage&Liao Weichun 382
Different Attitudes Towards Life in Endgame and Chinese Works&Zheng Lingjuan 391
In Bed with Tracey Emin and Mu Zimei—Pleasure and Jouissance in the Consumption of Cultural Forms&Hu Zhengmin 400
Translation of Wilde's Salome in the Republic of China(1912-1949)—Investigating Enlightenment&Liang Jingbi 413
Holmes in China—Impact of Translated British Detective Fiction on Chinese Literature in Late Qing Dynasty&Zhang Ping 424
About the Authors 435