Image of the new China

Author: Zhang Yiwu
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features:
"Look, they are coming" (Preface)
Autobiographical Preface
Part I: The End of "New Literature"
The End of "New Literature"
Moving Beyond the May Fourth Movement: The Need for a Transcendent Spirit
"Regression" of Imagination and "Descent" of Historiography – Reflections on the End of "New Literature"
Literary Imagination in the Context of Big History
The "Pure Literature" Debate and the End of "New Literature"
An Elegant Emergence: New Spaces for Chinese Literature
The Transformation of Reality and the Reorganization of Chinese Imagination
Part II: The Unfolding of New Century Literature
Farewell to a Century: China's Rebirth
Chinese Literature in the 1990s: The Cultural Challenge of Globalization
"Middle-Class Individuals" and Literary Imagination
Confused Reading: Reconsidering the "1970s Writers"
Beyond the Journey of Anxiety
The Significance of "New Youth Writing"
The Dance's Revelation: The Rise of "Desire Discourse"
The Novel in 2003: Vitality Amidst Confusion
Ten Years Have Passed in a Blink – The Transformation of Chinese Literary Reading Over the Past Decade
The Challenge of Identity
Rereimagining Revolution
Middle-Classification and Youthfulization: New Reading Spaces
The "Bestseller Mechanism" and the "Niche Market Mechanism"
Part III: The Extension of Inquiry
On "The Empire"
Cultural Studies and the Current Situation of China
The "Chinese Nature" of Foreign Literature: My Personal Memory History
Reflections on "Classics" – The Challenge of Postcolonial and Cultural Studies
Inquiring into the Spirit of Humanity – The Inspiration from "The Bulgakov Collection"
A Special Book – Written at the Time of Publishing "The Khazar Dictionary"
"The Ethics of Writing" and "The Ethics of Reading"
Part IV: Paths of Reading
The Significance of Liang Xiaosheng
Li David's Fantasy Career
The Significance of Su Yu's Works
Vulnerability and Memory – The Value of "The Divorced"
"The Wordless": Traces of Life
Carmine? The Empire? The Aesthetic Pursuit in the Age of Consumption
The Age of Flowers: Fragments of the Chinese Dream
Folds and Expectations of Youth
Commitment to the Nation
Revisiting Old Dreams, Sending Thoughts to the Distance – The Cultural Concerns in "White Gate Willow"
The Game Era: The Splendid Expansion of Magnificent Imagination
Revisiting the Question of Daily Life
The Power of Legend
The Revival of Legend Literature
The Story of "Muxiang"
"Ordinary People" or "Sages"? Looking Back at the "New China"
Thinking at the Margins
Epilogue: Understanding China and Interpreting China – The Intellectual and Cultural Critique of Zhang Yiwu