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Rethinking Chinese popular culture: cannibalizations of the canon / edited by Carlos Rojas and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2009. - xi, 288 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on contributors
Introduction: the disease of canonicity
CARLOS ROJAS

PART-I Producing popularity
1. Perverse poems and suspicious salons: the Friday School in modern Chinese literature
MICHEL HOCKX

2. Professional anxiety, brand names, and wild chickens: from 1909
ALEXANDER DES FORGES

3. Serial sightings: news, novelties, and an Unofficial History of the Old Capital
EILEEN CHENG-YIN CHOW

4. Canonizing the popular: the case of Jin Yong
JOHN CHRISTOPHER HAMM

PART II Canonical reflections
5. An archaeology of repressed popularity: Zhou Shoujuan, Mao Dun, and their 1920s literary polemics
JIANHUA CHEN

6. A tale of two cities: romance, revenge, and nostalgia in two fin-de-siecle novels by Ye Zhaoyan and Zhang Beihai
MICHAEL BERRY

7. From romancing the state to romancing the store: further elaborations of Butterfly motifs in contemporary Taiwan literature
PING-HUI LIAO

PART III Nostalgia and amnesia
8. Rewriting the Red Classics
DAI JINHUA

9. The reproduction of a popular hero
WEIJIE SONG

10. Memory, photographic seduction, and allegorical correspondence: Eileen Chang's Mutual Reflections
XIAOJUE WANG

PART IV Gender and desire
11. Popular literature and national representation: the gender and genre politics of Begonia
DAVID DER-WEI WANG

12. "What sort of thing is sentiment?" Gifts, love tokens, and material evidence in Jin Yong's novels
HSIAO-HUNG CHANG

13. Authorial afterlives and apocrypha in 1990s Chinese fiction
CARLOS ROJAS

ISBN: 9780415468800 (hbk.) 0415468809 (hbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Chinese literature--History and criticism.
Popular culture--China.

Dewey Class. No.: 895.109005