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