Documenting China

Margaret Hillenbrand is university lecturer in modern Chinese and a fellow of Wadham College at the University of Oxford, and author of Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990. Chloe Starr is assistant professor of Asian theology at the Yale Divinity School, author of Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing, and coeditor of China and the Quest for Gentility: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class.

• Preface1. Cultural ReformOn Constructive Literary Revolution, Hu Shi 2. Social ReformExcerpts from The Ladies' Journal3. Reform and RevolutionThe Three People's Principles, Sun Yat-sen4. Rectification Thoughts on March Eighth, Ding LingWild Lilies, Wang Shiwei5. Cultural Policy in the People's RepublicTalks at the Yan'an Forum on Art and Literature, Mao Zedong6. Total ReformExcerpts from Red Flag7. The UnreformedOn Family Background, Yu Luoke8. Tiananmen, 1989June Fourth - the True Story, Zhang Liang9. The 1980s EnlightenmentRiver Elegy, Su Xiaokang et al.10. Chinese Neo-NationalismChina Can Say No, Song Qiang et al.11. The Emergence of Civil SocietyBuilding a Civil Society in China, Deng Zhenglai and Jin Yuejin12. The New Left and the Critique of ConsumerismThe Invisible Politics of Mass Culture, Dai Jinhua13. Chinese Intellectuals and ChristianityA Sociological Commentary on the Phenomenon of "Cultural" Christians, Liu Xiaofeng14. Taiwanese IdentityThe Rising People, Hsu Hsin-liang15. Contemporary Sino-Japanese RelationsExcerpts from Strategies and Management16. China's Peaceful RiseThe New Path of China's Peaceful Rise and the Future of AsiaThe New Path of China's Peaceful Rise and Sino-US Relations, Zheng Bijian

"Presents a medley of linguistic samples that reflect the development of modern Chinese language from an awkward marriage of the vernacular with literary Chinese in the May Fourth era to the most contemporary features of academic prose and polemics, and addresses an impressive range of social issues, from cultural and literary revolution in the early twentieth century to contemporary politics and policy strategies." Rong Cai, author of The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature "A very useful textbook for extensive reading in advanced Chinese language courses. The first Chinese textbook designed to help students do research on their own with 'authentic texts' in their own fields." Shuhui Yang, author of Appropriation and Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story