David Der-Wei Wang - A New Literary History of Modern China

EDITORIAL BOARD

KIRK A. DENTON

MICHEL HOCKX

THEODORE HUTERS

CARLOS ROJAS

XIAOFEI TIAN

JING TSU

BAN WANG

MICHELLE YEH

with

JINGLING CHEN

KYLE SHERNUK

DYLAN SUHER

Copyright 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Names: Wang, Dewei, editor.

Title: A new literary history of modern China / edited by David Der-wei Wang.

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016046104

Subjects: LCSH: Chinese literatureHistory and criticism. | Literature and SocietyChinaHistory.

Classification: LCC PL2258 .N49 2017 | DDC 895.109dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016046104

DAVID DER-WEI WANG

SHER-SHIUEH LI

PAIZE KEULEMANS

THEODORE HUTERS

ANDREW SCHONEBAUM

JOHN T. P. LAI

BENJAMIN A. ELMAN

CARLOS ROJAS

STEPHEN OWEN

HUAN JIN

CHIH-MING WANG

XIAOFEI TIAN

DAVID DER-WEI WANG

ELLEN WIDMER

EMMA J. TENG

RUDOLF G. WAGNER

UGANDA SZE PUI KWAN

XIA XIAOHONG AND CHEN PINGYUAN TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GIBBS HILL

ALEXANDER DES FORGES

PATRICK DEWES HANAN

CHIEN-HSIN TSAI

THEODORE HUTERS

ANDREA BACHNER

SATORU HASHIMOTO

SHENGQING WU

MICHAEL GIBBS HILL

WEI YAN

N. GRAN D. MALMQVIST

KWOK KOU LEONARD CHAN

GRALDINE FISS

TSUYOSHI ISHII

NATASCHA GENTZ

HU YING

DAVID DER-WEI WANG

SHENGQING WU

HAIYAN LEE

KAI-CHEUNG DUNG TRANSLATED BY VICTOR OR

SUSAN CHAN EGAN

MINGWEI SONG

HA JIN

YING LEI

MICHEL HOCKX

PEI-YIN LIN

TZE-KI HON

JOHN CHRISTOPHER HAMM

CHARLES A. LAUGHLIN

MICHELLE YEH

CHEN PINGYUAN TRANSLATED BY ANDY RODEKOHR

WANG HUI TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GIBBS HILL

CATHERINE VANCE YEH

WAI-YEE LI

GRACE S. FONG

MINGWEI SONG

PU WANG

ANDREW SCHONEBAUM

AMY DOOLING

EILEEN CHENG-YIN CHOW

Q. S. TONG

DAVID DER-WEI WANG

LAWRENCE WANG-CHI WONG

ANDREW F. JONES

JEFFREY C. KINKLEY

HELEN PRAEGER YOUNG

KRISTINE HARRIS

ANDY RODEKOHR

LANJUN XU

MAN HE

CHARLES A. LAUGHLIN

XIAOBING TANG

EILEEN J. CHENG

LI RURU AND DAVID JIANG

JOHN A. CRESPI

Q. S. TONG

MICHAEL BERRY

PENG HSIAO-YEN

WONG AIN-LING

BAN WANG

LEO OU-FAN LEE

KATHERINE HUI-LING CHOU

FAYE YUAN KLEEMAN

QIAN LIQUN TRANSLATED BY DYLAN SUHER

HUI JIANG

NORMAN SMITH

NICK ADMUSSEN

E. K. TAN

SUSAN DARUVALA

KANG-I SUN CHANG

JINGLING CHEN

JOSEPH R. ALLEN

XIAOJUE WANG

HAR YE KAN

YINGJIN ZHANG

NICOLAI VOLLAND

SHUANG SHEN

JING TSU

RICHARD JEAN SO

WILT L. IDEMA

KIRK A. DENTON

WAI-LIM YIP

JIANHUA CHEN

CHIEN-HSIN TSAI

JING TSU

TARRYN LI-MIN CHUN

XIAOFEI TIAN

YUNZHONG SHU

CHONG FAH HING AND KYLE SHERNUK

WANG ANYI TRANSLATED BY CARLOS ROJAS

LEO OU-FAN LEE

GUANGCHEN CHEN

XIAOMEI CHEN

JIE LI

CHRISTOPHER LUPKE

YING QIAN

YOMI BRAESTER

PETRUS LIU

STEVEN YAO

THEODORE HUTERS

MARY SHUK-HAN WONG

STEPHEN TEO

MICHELLE YEH

LUCAS KLEIN

CLINT CAPEHART

RICHARD KING

PING-HUI LIAO

PERRY LINK

LINGCHEI LETTY CHEN

WEIJIE SONG

GLORIA DAVIES

LAURAN R. HARTLEY

SUNG-SHENG YVONNE CHANG

MICHAEL BERRY

ANDREA BACHNER

YU HUA TRANSLATED BY CARLOS ROJAS

LIU JIANMEI

CHEN SIHE TRANSLATED BY MINGWEI SONG

MAGHIEL VAN CREVEL

AO WANG

EMILIE YUEH-YU YEH

KYLE SHERNUK AND DYLAN SUHER

CLAIRE CONCEISON

ANDY RODEKOHR

ARI LARISSA HEINRICH

HSINYA HUANG

JOHN B. WEINSTEIN

BONNIE S. MCDOUGALL

PHENG CHEAH

CHU TIEN-HSIN TRANSLATED BY KYLE SHERNUK

BRIAN SKERRATT

MARTIN WOESLER

TARRYN LI-MIN CHUN

KAREN L. THORNBER

HEATHER INWOOD AND XIAOFEI TIAN

LI JUAN TRANSLATED BY KYLE SHERNUK

ALISON M. GROPPE

CASEY LEE

DARRELL WILLIAM DAVIS

ALEXA HUANG

MO YAN TRANSLATED BY DYLAN SUHER

KYLE SHERNUK

REY CHOW

MARK BENDER

MINGWEI SONG

This volume represents the collective effort of more than 140 scholars, writers, and translators in the Chinese, Sinophone, and Sinological worlds. I wish to express my deepest gratitude to themcontributors from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, France, Sweden, Canada, and the United Statesfor their willingness to participate in a highly unconventional project. This project would not have come into being without the benefit of their critical and imaginative input, as well as their ingenious writing.

I also extend my heartfelt thanks to the members of the Editorial Board, Professors Kirk Denton, Michel Hockx, Theodore Huters, Carlos Rojas, Xiaofei Tian, Jing Tsu, Ban Wang, and Michelle Yeh, for their strongest support at every stage of editorial work. They have always illuminated me with their thoughts and scholarship. Their conscientiousness and generosity of time and wisdom are deeply appreciated.

Special thanks go to the assistant editors of the volume, Jingling Chen, Kyle Shernuk, and Dylan Suher, for undertaking research assistance, reading the manuscript, and offering editorial suggestions. They are promising scholars of the field and their dedication and insight have taught me again the power and pleasure of literature. I would also like to thank other young scholarsDingru Huang, Jessica Tan, Tu Hang, Huanruo Wang, and Ying Leiwho have been involved in the project at various stages.

Dr. Lindsay Waters, executive editor for the humanities at Harvard University Press, has been extremely perceptive and patient in helping me prepare the volume. I thank him and his colleagues, Heather Hughes, Shan Wang, and Amanda Peery, as well as John Donohue and Ashley Moore of Westchester Publishing Services for their editorial expertise and professionalism.

Due to format constraints, sources are not referenced in footnotes but are often mentioned in the text itself. More source details are provided in select bibliographies at the ends of the essays. To all references the authors of these essays are deeply indebted.

Two leading senior scholars passed away as this volume was being prepared. Professor C. T. Hsia (19212013) pioneered modern Chinese literary studies in Western academia, and his A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) remains the most provocative work to date. Professor Patrick Hanan (19272014) was one of the most erudite scholars in late imperial and early modern Chinese literature, and a first-rate Sinologist. I was extremely fortunate to have been able to work with both of them, enjoying their guidance and friendship, at Columbia University and at Harvard University. Hsias contribution to the field is a topic within this volume, and Hanan wrote the final piece of his career for it.