CHINESE L I T E R AT U R E IN THE SECOND HALF OF A MODERN CENTURY A CRITICAL SURVEY Edited by PANG-YUAN CHI and DAVID DER-WEI WANG INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS • BLOOMINGTON AND INDIANAPOLIS William Tay’s “Colonialism, the Cold War Era, and Marginal Space: The Existential Condition of Five Decades of Hong Kong Literature,” Li Tuo’s “Resistance to Modernity: Reflections on Mainland Chinese Literary Criticism in the 1980s,” and Michelle Yeh’s “Death of the Poet: Poetry and Society in Contemporary China and Taiwan” first appeared in the special issue “Contemporary Chinese Literature: Crossing the Boundaries” (edited by Yvonne Chang) of Literature East and West (1995). Jeffrey Kinkley’s “A Bibliographic Survey of Publications on Chinese Literature in Translation from 1949 to 1999” first appeared in Choice (April 1994; copyright by the American Library Association). All of the essays have been revised for this volume. This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail
[email protected] © 2000 by David D. W. Wang All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chinese literature in the second half of a modern century : a critical survey / edited by Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-253-33710-0 (alk. paper) 1. Chinese literature—20th century—History and criticism. I. Ch’i, Pang-yüan. II. Wang, Te-wei, David. PL2303 .C42646 2000 895.1’09005—dc21 1 2 3 4 5 05 04 99-058462 03 02 01 00 CONTENTS Preface by Pang-yuan Chi Acknowledgments Editors’ Note Introduction by David Der-wei Wang ix xi xii xiii 1. FAREWELL TO THE GODS 1 Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory’s Fin-de-siècle Struggle Zaifu Liu 2. TAIWAN LITERATURE, 1945–1999 Pang-yuan Chi 14 3. COLONIALISM, THE COLD WAR ERA, AND MARGINAL SPACE 31 The Existential Condition of Five Decades of Hong