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Providing a broad introduction to the area, A World History of Chinese Literature maps the field of Chinese literature across its various worlds, looking both within ? at the world of Chinese literature, its history, linguistic, cultural, local, and regional specificities ? and without ? at the way Chinese literature has circulated throughout the world. The thematic focus allows for a broad number of key categories, such as authors, genres, genders, regions, as well as innovative explorations of new topics and issues such as inter-arts performativity and transmediation.

The sections cover the circulation and reception of China in world literature, as well as the worlds of:

• Chinese literature across the globe
• Borders, oceans, and rainforests
• Comparative literary genres 
• Translingual writers and scholars
• Gender configurations
• Translation and transmediation

With a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection intervenes in current debates on global Chinese literature, Sinophone and Sinoscript studies, and the production and reception of literary works by ethnic Chinese in non-Sinitic languages, as well as Anglophone literature inspired by Chinese literary tradition. It will be of interest to anyone working on or studying Chinese literature, language and culture, as well as world literatures in relation to China.

Providing a broad introduction to the area, this book maps the field of Chinese literature across its various worlds. Looking both within ? at the world of Chinese literature, its history, linguistic, cultural, local, and regional specificities ? and without ? at the way Chinese Literature has circulated throughout the world.

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List of Figures
Contributors

　
I. Overviews: Literature, History, and the Multiple Worlds
1. General Introduction 
Yingjin Zhang (U of California, San Diego)
2. Modern Chinese Literary Historiography 
David Wang (Harvard U)

II. Circulation and Reception of China in World Literature 
3. Zeitgeist and Literature: The Reception of Chinese Literature in Germany until the First Half of the Twentieth Century 
Weigui Fang (Beijing Normal U, China) 
4. Paris and the Art of Transposition, 1920s-1940s
Angie Chau (U of Victoria, Canada)
5. Line, Loop, Constellation: Classical Chinese Poetry between Sinophone and Anglophone Worlds 
Luo Hui (Victoria U of Wellington, New Zealand)
6. A Decade Apart: Bridging the US and China Literary Systems, 2010-2021 
Jonathan Stalling (U of Oklahoma)

III. Worlding Chinese Literature Across the Globe
7. Chinese Literature at Large: Wong Chin Foo’s Border-Crossing Writing 
Ping Zhu (U of Oklahoma)
8. Engaging the World in Republican Literature 
Liyan Qin (Peking U, China) 
9. The Rise of Author Museums in the PRC: How Institutions Make World Literature
Emily Graf (Free U of Berlin, Germany)

IV. Sinophone Worlds of Borderlands, Urban Jungles, and Rainforests 
10. Yi Literature: Traditional and Contemporary 
Mark Bender (Ohio State U)
11. Queer Sinophone Literature in Hong Kong: The Politics of Worldliness 
Alvin K. Wong (U of Hong Kong)
12. Taiwanese Literature in the Early Twenty-First Century 
Kuei-fen Chiu (Chung Hsing U, Taiwan)
13. Of Other (Chinese) Spaces: Sinophone Literature and the Rainforest 
Andrea Bachner (Cornell U)

V. Comparative Worlds of Literary Genres 
14. Modern Chinese Drama Across Media and Worlds: Centered on the Case of the White Snake 
Liang Luo (U of Kentucky)
15. Reportage and the Forms of Nonfiction Art in China 
Charles Laughlin (U of Virginia)
16. Reading World Literature in Chinese Science Fiction 
Lena Henningsen (U of Freiburg, Germany)
17. Ecological Critique as World Literature: Alienation of Nature and Humans in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide 
Ban Wang (Stanford U)

VI. Translingual Worlds of Writers and Scholars 
18. Su Manshu’s "Broken Hairpin": A Romantic Tragedy in the Hard Times 
Ping-hui Liao (U of California, San Diego)
19. Qian Zhongshu as a Cosmopolitan 
Ji Jin (Suzhou U, China)
20. Zhang Ailing and the Cold War Cultural Geography 
Xiaojue Wang (Rutgers U)
21. Worlding Jin Yong’s Martial Arts (Wuxia) Narrative in Three Keys 
Weijie Song (Rutgers U)
22. Yan Lianke’s Heterotopic Imaginaries 
Carlos Rojas (Duke U)

VII. New Worlds of Gender Configurations 
23. Modern Intellectual Masculinities in Transformation 
Jun Lei (Texas A&M U)
24. Nora in China 
Ying Hu (U of California, Irvine)
25. Reading Women: Rethinking a Trope in the Socialist Modern and Beyond 
Barbara Mittler (U of Heidelberg, Germany)
26. Feminine Neorealist Fiction in the New Millennium: Voice, Trauma, and Focalization in Fang Fang’s Fiction
Li Guo (Utah State U)

VIII. Changing Worlds of Translation and Transmediation
27. Frame Tales: Reading the 1,001 Nights in Early Twentieth-Century China 
HiMichael Gibbs Hill (College of William and Mary)
28. Figuring Time: Lyricism in Contemporary Chinese Poetic Films 
Shengqing Wu (Hong Kong U of Science and Technology)
29. Performance and Performativity in Modern China 
Emily Wilcox (U of Michigan) 
30. Chinese Internet Fictions in the Transmedia World 
Yiwen Wang (U of California, San Diego)

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