Carlos Rojas is Assistant Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow is Associate Professor of Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University.

• Introduction The Disease of Canonicity Carlos Rojas Part 1: Producing Popularity 1. Perverse Poems and Suspicious Salons: The Friday School in Modern Chinese Literature Michel Hockx 2. The Formation of the "Professional Author" as a Figure in Early Twentieth Century Vernacular Fiction Alexander Des Forges 3. Serial Sightings: News, Novelties, and Zhang Henshui's An Unofficial History of the Old Capital Eileen Cheng-yin Chow 4. On the Literary Consecration of Jin Yong's Fiction John Christopher Hamm Part 2: Canonical Reflections 5. An Archaeology of Repressed Popularity: Zhou Shoujuan, Mao Dun, and Their 1920s Literary Polemics Jianhua Chen 6. A Tale of Two Cities: Romance, Revenge, and Nostalgia in Two Fin-de-Siècle Novels by Ye Zhaoyan and Zhang Beihai Michael Berry 7. From Romancing the State to Romancing the Store: Further Elaborations on Some Motifs in Contemporary Taiwan Literature Ping-hui Liao Part 3: Nostalgia and Amnesia 8. Rereading the Red Classics: "Bidding Farewell to Revolution" and Red Nostalgia DAI Jinhua 9. The Reproduction of a Popular Hero: Tsui Hark’s Wong Fei-hong Weijie Song 10. Memory, Photographic Seduction and Allegorical Correspondence: Eileen Chang’s Mutual Reflections Xiaojue Wang Part 4: Gender and Desire 11. Popular Literature and National Representation: The Gender and Genre Politics of Begonia David Der-wei Wang 12. Asking Jin Yong, 'What is sentiment?' – Gifts, Love Letters, and Material Evidence Hsiao-hung Chang 13. Authorial Afterlives and Apocrypha in 1990s Chinese Fiction Carlos Rojas