Introduction

Part I. Realism Unbounded
Chapter One A Homeless Soul and a Misplaced Nostalgia Exiled Experience and Xiao Hong's Diasporic Literature
Chapter Two From Feminist to Party Intellectual? Identity Politics and Ding Ling's "New Women Stories"

Part II. Romanticism， Modernism， or Modern Literati's Novel?
Chapter Three An Alienated Mind Dreaming for Integration： Constrained Cosmopolitanism in Wumingshi's "Modern Literati Novel"
Chapter Four Illusionary Cosmopolitanism and Flawed Humanity： A New Interpretation of Xu Xu's "Modern Tales of the Strange"

Part III. Cross-Cultural Transaction in "Boudoir Stories"
Chapter Five Eileen Chang's Cross-Cultural Writing and Rewriting in Love in a Fallen City
Chapter Six Matrimonial Complex and Identity Anxiety：Eileen Chang's "Boudoir Stories" and the （Im-）Possibility of Modern Chinese Bourgeoisie

Part IV. Narrative Strategy under Middle-Class Consciousness
Chapter Seven Double Pitfalls for Chinese "New Women"： Mei Niang's Fictional Narrative of the Colonial Society
Chapter Eight Making a Historical Fable：The Narrative Strategy of Lust， Caution and Its Social Repercussions

Part V. Peasants' Habitus and "National Form"
Chapter Nine "Problem Stories as Part of the National Form：" Rural Society in Transition and Zhao Shuli's Peasant Stories
Chapter Ten From "Use of Old Forms" to "Establishment of a National Form'.A Re-Evaluation of Mao's Agenda of Forging a Cultural-Political Nation

Conclusion
Some Thoughts on the Origin of Modern Chinese Literature

References