Introduction
1. Fictions, authors and audiences in 20th century China
Part I: Authors, Audiences and Critics
2. Modern Chinese literature and its critics
3. Writing Self: author/audience complicity in modern Chinese fiction
4. The importance of being earnest in China: early Chinese attitudes toward Oscar Wilde
Part II: Authors and Gender
5. Self-narrative as group discourse: female subjectivity in Wang Anyi's fiction
6. Cross-dressing in modern Chinese fiction, drama and film: reflections on Chen Kaige's Farewell my concubine
7. Disappearing women and disappearing men in May fourth narrative: a post-feminist survey of short stories by Mao Dun, Bing Xin, Ling Shuhua and Shen Congwen
Part III: Authors and Authority
8. Breaking through: literature and the arts in China 1976-1986
9. Censorship and self-censorship in Chinese poetry and fiction, 1976-1986
10. The anxiety of out-fluence: creativity, history and postmodernity
11. Literary decorum or carnivalistic grotesque: literature in the People's Republic of China after fifty years
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