Chronology of Major Historical Events

Part I. Thematic Essays

1. Historical Overview, by Kirk A. Denton

2. Modern Chinese Literature as an Institution: Canon and Literary History, by Yingjin Zhang

3. Language and Literary Form, by Charles Laughlin

4. Literary Communities and the Production of Literature, by Michel Hockx

5. Between Tradition and Modernity: Contested Classical Poetry, by Shengqing Wu

6. Diaspora in Modern Chinese Literature, by Shuyu Kong

7. Sinophone Literature, by Brian Bernards

8. Chinese Literature and Film Adaptation, by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman

Part II. Authors, Works, Schools

9. The Late Qing Poetry Revolution: Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian, and Chinese Literary Modernity", by Jianhua Chen

10. The Uses of Fiction: Liang Qichao and His Contemporaries, by Alexander DesForges

11. Late Qing Fiction, by Ying Hu

12. Zhou Shoujuan's Love Stories and Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies Fiction, by Jianhua Chen

13. Form and Reform: New Poetry and the Crescent Moon Society, by John Crespi

14. Reconsidering the Origins of Modern Chinese Women's Writing, by Amy D. Dooling

15. The Madman That Was Ah Q: Tradition and Modernity in Lu Xun's Fiction, by Ann Huss

16. Romantic Sentiment and the Problem of the Subject: Yu Dafu, by Kirk A. Denton

17. Feminism and Revolution: The Work and Life of Ding Ling, by Jingyuan Zhang

18. The Debate on Revolutionary Literature, by Charles Laughlin

19. Mao Dun, the Modern Novel, and the Representation of Women, by Hilary Chung

20. Ba Jin's Family: Fiction, Representation, and Relevance, by Nicholas A. Kaldis

21. Chinese Modernism: The New Sensationists, by Steven L. Riep

22. Shen Congwen and Imagined Native Communities, by Jeffrey Kinkley

23. Xiao Hong's Field of Life and Death, by Amy D. Dooling

24. Performing the Nation: Chinese Drama and Theater, by Xiaomei Chen

25. Cao Yu and Thunderstorm, by Jonathan Noble

26. The Reluctant Nihilism of Lao She's Rickshaw, by Thomas Moran

27. Eileen Chang and Narratives of Cities and Worlds, by Nicole Huang

28. Literature and Politics: Mao Zedong's "Yan'an Talks" and Party Rectification, by Kirk A. Denton

29. Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang: A Literary Marriage, by Christopher Rea

30. Revolutionary Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism: Song of Youth, by Ban Wang

31. The Hundred Flowers: Qin Zhaoyang, Wang Meng, and Liu Binyan, by Richard King

32. Cold War Fiction from Taiwan and the Modernists, by Christopher Lupke

33. Nativism and Localism in Taiwanese Literature, by Christopher Lupke

34. The Cultural Revolution Model Theater, by Di Bai

35. Martial-Arts Fiction and Jin Yong, by John Christopher Hamm

36. Taiwanese Romance: Qiong Yao and San Mao, by Miriam Lang

37. Misty Poetry, by Michelle Yeh

38. Scar Literature and the Memory of Trauma, by Sabina Knight

39. Culture Against Politics: Roots-Seeking Literature, by Mark Leenhouts

40. Mo Yan, by Yomi Braester

41. Avant-Garde Fiction in Post-Mao China, by Andrew F. Jones

42. Contemporary Experimental Theaters in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, by Rossella Ferrari

43. Modern Poetry of Taiwan, by Michelle Yeh

44. Homoeroticism in Modern Chinese Literature, by Thomas Moran

45. Contemporary Urban Fiction: Rewriting the City, by Robin Visser and Jie Lu

46. Xi Xi and Tales of Hong Kong, by Daisy S.Y. Ng

47. Writing Taiwan's Fin-de-Siècle Splendor: Zhu Tianwen and Zhu Tianxin, by Lingchei Letty Chen

48. Wang Anyi, by Lingzhen Wang

49. Wang Shuo, by Jonathan Noble

50. Commercialization of Literature in the Post-Mao Era: Yu Hua, Beauty Writers, and Youth Writers, by Zhen Zhang

51. Popular Genre Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy, by Mingwei Song

52. Word and Image: Gao Xingjian, by Mabel Lee

53. Hong Kong Voices: Literature from the Late Twentieth Century to the New Millennium, by Esther M.K. Cheung

54. Avant-Garde Poetry in China Since the 1980s, by Maghiel van Crevel

55. Taiwan Literature in the Post–Martial Law Era, by Michael Berry

56. Speaking from the Margins: Yan Lianke, by Carlos Rojas

57. Internet Literature: From YY to MOOC, by Heather Inwood