Subversive Self in Modern Chinese Literature : The Creation Society's Reinvention of the Japanese Shishosetsu

A Note About Romanization ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1(16) 1. Shishosetsu Theory in Japan and the Creation Society's Encounter with the Form 17(12) 2. Creation Society Fiction and the Subjective Quality of May Fourth Literature 29(18) 3. Bundan versus Wentan: The Dynamics of the Literary Coterie and Its Audience(s) 47(20) 4. The Creation Society's Remaking of the Shishosetsu 67(22) 5. The Limits of Subversion: Political and Social Critique in the Creation Society's Early Fiction 89(24) 6. The Legacy of the Shishosetsu in Chinese Literature 113(22) Notes 135(36) Appendix A: Synopses of Selected Creation Society Stories 171(12) Appendix B: Glossary of Selected Terms from Chinese and Japanese 183(8) Bibliography 191(12) Index 203