Introduction: Out of the ashes: towards a wartime aesthetics of dissolution Ch.1. A sonnet in an air-raid shelter: Mu Dan and the new lyricism Ch. 2. Intersections between cartoon and national art: Ye Qianyu's search for the sinicized cartoon Ch. 3. Wang Zengqi's collection of chance encounters: the shifting essence of the wartime short story Ch. 4. Between forgetting and the repetitions of memory: Fei Mu's aesthetics of desolation in Spring in a small town Ch. 5. Fei Ming's After Mr. Neverwas rides a plane: wartime autobiography as history Epilogue : Searching for roots: modernists echoes in the post-Mao era. · · · · · · (收起)