Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays

Howard Y. F. Choy, Ph.D. (2004), Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the editor of Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and Body in Modern China (Brill, 2016) and the author of Remapping the Past: Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979-1997 (Brill, 2008).Liu Jianmei, Ph.D. (1998), Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature (Oxford UP, 2016), Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Hawaii UP, 2003).

• Foreword: “Standing Alone atop the Mountain; Walking Freely under the Sea”AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLiu Jianmei and Howard Y. F. Choypart 1: Literary History1 Literary History as ParadoxTranslated by Howard Y. F. Choy2 The End of Modern Chinese Revolutionary LiteratureTranslated by Steven Day3 From the Monologic Era to the Polyphonic Era An Outline of Forty Years of Literary Development in Mainland ChinaTranslated by Ke Wei and Torbjörn Lodénpart 2: Cultural Criticism and Literary Theory4 Traditional Chinese Culture’s Designs on HumanityTranslated by Deirdre Sabina Knight5 On the Stylistic Revolution of Literary Criticism in the 1980sTranslated by Ann Huss6 Farewell to the GodsContemporary Chinese Literary Theory’s Fin-de-siècle StruggleTranslated by Steven Day7 Literature Exiling the StateTranslated by Torbjörn Lodén8 The Dimensions of Modern Chinese Literature and Their LimitationsTranslated by Eileen J. Chengpart 3: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Writers9 Lu Xun and Chinese/Foreign CultureTranslated by Alan Berkowitz and Haili Kong10 Miracle and Tragedy in Modern Chinese LiteratureIn Honor of Lu Xun’s 120th BirthdayTranslated by Lianying Shan11 Eileen Chang’s Fiction and C. T. Hsia’s A History of Modern Chinese FictionTranslated by Yunzhong Shu12 Escape of the Mental PrisonerIn Honor of Gao XingjianTranslated by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes13 A Comparative Study of Gao Xingjian and Mo YanTranslated by Jessica YeungPostcript: Translation, Quotation, and ExpatriationSelected BibliographyIndex

"From an editorial perspective, the selection of essays and the quality of the translations are very good, and both the volumes preface (authored by David Der-wei Wang) and introduction (authored by the volumes co-editors) are excellent. The translators and editors have included in-line Chinese characters for all proper names, titles of texts, and some specialized terminology, and have also added bibliographic footnotes where needed...The present volume offers English-language readers a small sampling of [Liu Zaifu's] formidable body of work."-Carlos Rojas, Duke University, in MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright November, 2021)