Modernist Poetics in China

Tiao Wang is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the School of Foreign Languages, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. She has published 23 articles, 9 of which are in English, focused on American and European modernism.  She is also co-translator of Yong Bao Teng Tong (2017), a translation of Pain and Suffering by Ronald Schleifer (2014). Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma, USA.  His publications in literary modernism include Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880–1930  (2000), Modernism and Popular Music (2011), and A Political Economy of Modernism: Literature, Post-Classical Economics, and the Lower Middle-Class (2018).

• Introduction Gai 改: Modernity as Change: Introductory Notes on Culture, Enlightenment Modernity, Capitalism, Complexity, Semantic Overlap.- 1.Shi Chang Jing Ji 市场经济: Market Economy: Modernity, Corporate Capitalism, and Chinese Literature since 1978.- 2. Xian Feng 先锋: Economies of Meaning: Semiotics, the Avant-Garde, And Corporate Capitalism.- 3. Che Dan扯蛋: The Bathos of High Literary Modernism: Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged and Performances of Literary Joking.- 4. Zhou 周: The Sublime Poetics of Literary Modernism: Luminous Detail and the Pursuit of Immanence in the Poetry of Mang Ke.- 5. Kun Nan 困难: Difficulty and Clan in Literary Modernism: Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Mo Yan’s Big Beasts & Wide Hips.- Afterword  Fei Jian Dan 非简单: The Non-Simplicities of Culture: A Concluding Note.