Rethinking Chinese popular culture: cannibalizations of the canon / edited by Carlos Rojas and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: xi, 288 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780415468800 (hbk.); 0415468809 (hbk.)Subject(s): Chinese literature -- History and criticism | Popular culture -- ChinaDDC classification: 895.109005
Contents:
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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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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