Introduction

Part I. Realism Unbounded
Chapter One A Homeless Soul and a Misplaced Nostalgia Exiled Experience and Xiao Hong's Diasporic Literature
Chapter Two From Feminist to Party Intellectual? Identity Politics and Ding Ling's "New Women Stories"

Part II. Romanticism�� Modernism�� or Modern Literati's Novel?
Chapter Three An Alienated Mind Dreaming for Integration�� Constrained Cosmopolitanism in Wumingshi's "Modern Literati Novel"
Chapter Four Illusionary Cosmopolitanism and Flawed Humanity�� A New Interpretation of Xu Xu's "Modern Tales of the Strange"

Part III. Cross-Cultural Transaction in "Boudoir Stories"
Chapter Five Eileen Chang's Cross-Cultural Writing and Rewriting in Love in a Fallen City
Chapter Six Matrimonial Complex and Identity Anxiety��Eileen Chang's "Boudoir Stories" and the ��Im-��Possibility of Modern Chinese Bourgeoisie

Part IV. Narrative Strategy under Middle-Class Consciousness
Chapter Seven Double Pitfalls for Chinese "New Women"�� Mei Niang's Fictional Narrative of the Colonial Society
Chapter Eight Making a Historical Fable��The Narrative Strategy of Lust�� Caution and Its Social Repercussions

Part V. Peasants' Habitus and "National Form"
Chapter Nine "Problem Stories as Part of the National Form��" Rural Society in Transition and Zhao Shuli's Peasant Stories
Chapter Ten From "Use of Old Forms" to "Establishment of a National Form'.A Re-Evaluation of Mao's Agenda of Forging a Cultural-Political Nation

Conclusion
Some Thoughts on the Origin of Modern Chinese Literature

References