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
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Chinese literature--History and criticism. Popular culture--China.