On the Margins of Modernism

Christopher Rosenmeier is a Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Edinburgh

• 1. Introduction2. Tradition and Hybridity in Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying3. Wartime Literature Between Tradition and Modernity4. Boundaries of the Real in Xu Xu’s Fiction5. Wumingshi and the Wartime Romances6. Opposition, Imitation, Adaptation, and Diffusion in Popular Chinese LiteratureBibliography; Notes

In this highly original and impeccably researched study, Christopher Rosenmeier redraws the boundaries of modernism in Chinese fiction, through a comparative stylistic analysis of a set of works that were previously considered to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum of "serious" and "popular" literature. His contribution to the study of the wartime authors Xu Xu and Wumingshi is especially invaluable, as these hugely important writers have received only scant attention from scholars so far.　On the Margins of Modernism　truly is a milestone and will remain a standard reference for students of Chinese modernism for many years to come.