附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-370) and index.
Invitation to a beheading -- Crime or punishment? -- An undesired revolution -- Three hungry women -- Of scars and national memory -- The monoster that is history -- The end of the line -- Second haunting.
摘要:David Wang explores 20th century Chinese literature, delineating the many meanings of Chinese violence & its literary manifestations. He considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, & personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events.