Contemporary Chinese Literature

YIBING HUANG is Associate Professor of Chinese at Connecticut College, USA.

• Rethinking the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution Duo Duo: An Impossible Farewell, or, Exile between Revolution and Modernism Wang Shuo: Playing for Thrills in the Era of Reform, or, A Genealogy of the Present Zhang Chengzhi: Striving for Alternative National Forms, or, Old Red Guard and New Cultural Heretic Wang Xiaobo: From "Golden Age" to "Silver Age," or, Writing Against the Gravity of History Revising a Double-Faced Chinese Modernity

'Taking a close look at Chinese literature in the post Cultural Revolution period as well as the era of economic takeoff, Huang deploys a very ingenious and provocative trope, that of the orphan pairing up with the bastard. Highlighting the self-contradictory nature and crisis-ridden search in writers such as Duo Duo, Wang Shuo, Zhang Chengzhi, and Wang Xiaobo, Huang's work is a comprehensive study of culturally orphaned and politically rebellious generations in search of their voice and identity.' - Ban Wang, Stanford University