Some sections of the chapters in this book have been published in distin- guished international academic journals. They had undergone minor revisions before being included here. I would like to thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their comments and advice. I would also like to thank the jour- nals mentioned for providing permission to reprint their materials in this book.
Part of the Introduction has appeared as “Three Trends in Recent Studies of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture,” in China Perspectives, 4(80) (2009), pp.118–126.
Part of the Introduction of Part One has appeared as “The Problematic of ‘High (-brow) Literature’ and ‘Low (-brow) Literature’ ”: Some Thoughts on the Origin of Modern Chinese Literature,” in Frontier of Literary Studies in China, vol.7, no.1. 2013, pp.117–141.
Section Two of the first chapter has appeared as “Articulating the (Dis-)Enchantment of Colonial Modernity: Mei Niang’s Representation of the Predicament of Chinese ‘New Women,’ ” in Tulsa Studies on Women’s Literature, vol.34, no.2, 2015, pp.333–353.
Part of the first section in Chapter Two has appeared as “Eileen Chang’s Cross-Cultural Writing and Rewriting in Love in a Fallen City,” in Comparative Literature Studies, vol.49, no.4, 2012, pp.565–584.
Part of the second section in Chapter Two has appeared as “Matrimonial Complex and Identity Anxiety: A Psycho-Political Reading of Zhang Ailing’s ‘Boudoir Stories’,” in Journal of Cambridge Studies, vol.7, no 1, 2012, pp.100–119.
Part of the Introduction of Part Two has appeared as “Subjectivity and Realism: The Cultural Politics of Hu Feng’s Theory of ‘Subjective Fighting Spirit’,” in Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, vol.40, no.2, 2012, pp.215–234.
Part of the first section in Chapter Three has appeared as “An Alienated Mind Dreaming for Integration: Constrained Cosmopolitanism in Wumingshi’s ‘Modern Literati Novel’,” in Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, vol.2., no.4, 2012. pp.425–438.