Table of Contents
Introduction: Why Does Socialist Culture Matter Today?
PART I: RETHINKING SOCIALISM, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE
1. Shanghai as a Socialist City and Spatial Reconstruction; Luo Gang and Li Yun
2. One Village and One Novel: Revisiting Wenquantun Village; He Jixian and Lu Taiguang
3. Gender Politics and the Crisis of Socialist Aesthetics; Mao Jian
4. The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It; Cai Xiang
PART II: CRITICAL REFLECTION ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE SINCE THE REFORM
5. Mythification of the Reform-Era History: A Social-Historical Analysis of the Avant-Garde Literature; Liu Fusheng
6. Genealogy and Ideology of the Avant-Garde Fiction; He Guimei
7. Eight Key Terms in Literary Criticism; Cao Zhenglu
8. Enjoyment: A New Experiment on Surrealist Writing: A Dialogue between Li Tuo and Yan Lianke
PART III: DEBATING THE RISE OF 'NEW LEFT' CULTURE AND 'SUBALTERN LITERATURE' IN THE REFORM ERA
9. The Rise of 'Subaltern Literature' in the 21st Century: A Speech at the Utopian Forum (2007); Li Yunlei
10. A Difficult Breakthrough: On Representing Subaltern Experiences; Nan Fan
11. Che Guevara: Notes on the Play, Its Production, and Reception; Huang Jisu
PART IV: PEOPLE'S LITERATURE AND CULTURE: FROM PAST TO FUTURE
12. The White-Haired Girl: Limitations and Potential of the New Interpretation; He Jixian
13. Subjective Identity, Revolutionary Consciousness, and People's Literature: Zhang Chengzhi and His Literature in the New Era; Zhang Hong
14. People's Literature: An Unfinished Historical Project; Kuang Xinnian
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