Table of Contents
Overview: Chinese Writers on Writing, Retrospective Introduction, Enforced Silence or Emigre Uncertainties: Options for Chinese Writers after a Decade of Experiments and Growth, Contributors, I. LITERATURE FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC HISTORICAL BLUNDERS, The Enigmatic Laughter oflnsanity: A Modern Love Story, A Written Testimonial: About the Cultural Revolution, I Am Not Solzhenitsyn: From an Eyewitness of the Labor Camps, On Behalf of Humanism: The Confession of a Former Leftist, FURTHER VICTIMS OF POLITICS IN THE EIGHTIES, Against Those Who Wield the Scissors: A Plea for an End to Censorship, China's Contemporary Literature: Reaching Out to the World and to the Future, Reflections in the Hot Springs of Hakone: China, Our Impoverished, Tmuble-Ridden Motherland, PATTERNS OF THE NEW LITERATURE, Banished to Xinjiang: Or, About Bestial Hatred of Literature, Novels Strangled in the Cradle: My Senseless Literary Battles, Spokesman for a Victimized Generation: Can There Be Progress after Midlife?, After Twenty Years of Silence We Lick Our Wounds: Our Battle for a Place in World Literature, ACCOUNTS OF RURAL REALITIES, Thrusts of Violent Creativity: ''I Returned with My Hands Empty and Shame on My Face, The Slow Maturation of My Craft: Tea in Cold Water Steeps Slowly, Life Is Changing, Even in Hilly Shangzhou, RISING IN PROTEST: A NEW GENERATION, The First Half of My Life: A Boy from the City Struggling for Survival in Far-Away Yunnan, AGAINST COMPLACENCY: WOMEN WRITERS, The Boat I Steer: A Study in Perseverance, Needed: A Spirit of Courageous Self-Examination, DOCUMENTARY LITERATURE, Is Reportage to Be Excluded from the Realm of Literature? The Function of Warning Bells, A ''Bengal Tigress'' Interviews Herself: A Panorama of Our Times from Within, THE SEARCH FOR ROOTS, After the Literature of the Wounded: Local Cultures, Roots, Maturity, and Fatigue, COMBINING PAST AND PRESENT, We Must Not Forget Our Historical Roots: Popular Literature, Peking Opera, and Modern Prose, AN ABRUPT END TO PRC LITERATURE OF THE EIGHTIES, The June 4 Syndrome: Spiritual and Ideological Schizophrenia, II. WITHOUT A REGIME OR A REGIMEN: ENTERTAINMENT FICTION ADVENTURE NOVELS, Against the Authors of Foreign Books in Chinese Language: An Interview with China's Most Popular Writer of Adventure Novels, III. CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN MODERNISTS AND SEMI-EMIGRES, The Chinese Student Movement Abroad: Exiled Writers in the New World, On the Miseries of Writers in American Exile: Sanitized Versions for Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic, Such a Symphony of Written Characters One Must Not Allow to Disperse, THE NATIVE REALISTS: BLACK HUMOR AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS, How Love Scatters: On the Publication of the First Collection of My Works, Father's Writings Have Been Republished: Or, The Sexuality of Women Students in a Taibei Bookstore, Things Chinese and Foreign, Ancient and Modern: An Absurd Comedy, IDEOLOGISTS, Against Taiwan's Orphan Mentality: The Author as His Own Critic, Native Literature as a Stimulus for Social Change: From a Writing Career to Political Activism, ALIENATION, WITHDRAWAL, AND DISSENT, Cold Ashes in the Heart: The Tragedy of Taiwanese Literature, Concern About the Native Land: On the Taking of a Pseudonym, NEW GENERATIONS, From Taibei's Suburbs: Into the Hubbub of Taiwan's Economic Miracle, Protest of a Woman Author Against Reckless Accusations: Another Self-Interview, This Time from Taibei, Vanished Virility: Stories-My Last Remaining Castle, IV. THE REPUBLICAN ERA REVISITED CHANGING TIMES, Suppressed Furor Against Foreign Troops: An Unwritten Novel and a Play about the Boxer Uprising, A Literary Outcry: Awakening from Unconsciousness, My J'accuse Against This Moribund System: Notes on a Crumbling Landlord Clan of Western Sichuan, Shanghai's Silk Industry: World Economic Crisis, Workers, and Civil War, NEW FORMS OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, Fiction and Society: Changes and Continuities in Mass Audiences, International Shanghai, 1941: Coffee House Chat about Sexual Intimacy and the Childlike Charm of the Japanese, Foolish Dreams: Like a Blind Person Going Fishing, Early Autobiographical Fragments: A Young Sojourner in a Foreign Land, Glossary, Translators and Writers Translated, Bibliographies, Index
