AUTHOR STUDIES

A Cheng
Duke, Michael S. "Two Chess Masters, One Chinese Way: A Comparison of Chang Hsi-kuo's and Chung Ah-cheng's "Chi Wang"." Asian Culture Quarterly (Winter 1987): 41-63.

Dutrait, Noel. "Analyse d'un succes: Ah Cheng et son oeuvre, biographie et thematique." Etudes Chinoises 11, 2 (Autumn 1992): 32-75.

Huters, Theodore. "Speaking of Many Things: Food, Kings, and the National Tradition in Ah Cheng's 'The Chess King.'" Modern China 14, 4 (1988): 388-418.

Knapp, Bettina. "A Cheng's 'The King of the Trees': Exile and the Chinese Re-education Process." In David Bevan, ed., Literature and Exile. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990, 91-106.

Lonergan, Ross. "Tradition and Modernity in Ah Cheng's 'The Chess King.'" B.C. Asian Review 2 (1988).

Louie, Kam. "The Short Stories of Ah Cheng: Daoism, Confucianism and Life." Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 18 (1987): 1-14. Rpt. In Louie, Between Fact and Fiction: Essays on Post-Mao Chinese Literature and Society. Sydney: Wild Peony, 1989, 76-90.

Mair, Denis C. "Ah Cheng and His King of Chess." In Yang Bian, ed., The Time is Not Ripe: Contemporary China's Best Writers and Their Stories. Beijing: FLP, 1991, 1-14.

Wang, Ban. "Citation of Discourse and Ironic Debunking in Ah Cheng's Work." In Wang, Narrative Perspective and Irony in Selected Chinese and American Fiction. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2002.

Wang, David. "Tai Hou-ying, Feng Chi-Ts'ai and Ah Cheng: Three Approaches to the Historical Novel." Asian Culture Quarterly 16, 2 (1988): 70-88.

Wong, Kin-yuen. "Between Aesthetics and Hermeneutics: A New Type of Bildungsroman in Ah Cheng's 'The Chess Champion.'" MCL 5, 1 (1989): 43-54.

Yue, Gang. "Surviving in 'The Chess King': Toward a Post-Revolutionary Nation-Narration." Positions 3, 2 (Fall 1995): 565-94.

-----. "The Strange Landscape of the Ancients: Environmental Consciousness in 'The King of Trees.'" American Journal of Chinese Studies 5, 1 (1998): 68-88.

Yue, Gang. "Postrevolutionary Leftovers: Zhang Xianliang and Ah Cheng." In The Mouth that Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999, 184-221.

Zhong, Chengxiang. "The Zhongs: Father and Son--Ah Cheng and His Father." Trans. by Stephen Fleming. Chinese Literature (1989): 76-96.


A Long
Sekine, Ken. "A Verbose Silence in 1939 Chongqing: Why Ah Long's Nanjing Could Not Be Published." MCLC Resource Center Publication, 2004.


Ai Bei
Decker, Margaret. "Femininity as Imprisonment: Subjectivity, Agency, and Criminality in Ai Bei's Fiction." In Lu Tonglin, ed. Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993, 135-56.


Ai Qing
Eoyang, Eugene. "Editor's Introduction." In Ai Qing, Selected Poems of Ai Qing. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1982, i-x.

Feng, Chih. "On the Poetry of Ai Ch'ing." In Hualing Nieh, ed., Literature of the Hundred Flowers, Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1981, 76-98.

Ting, Mang. "A Rebuttal of Ai Ch'ing (poem)." In Hualing Nieh, ed., Literature of the Hundred Flowers, Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1981, 99.

Palandri, Angela Jung. "The Poetic Theory and Practice of Ai Qing." In Mason Y.H. Wang, ed., Perspectives in Contemporary Chinese Lterature. Michigan: Green River Press, 1983, 61-76.

Sha, Ou. "Various Masks: Ai Ch'ing (poem)." In Hualing Nieh, ed., Literature of the Hundred Flowers, Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1981, 1000.

Ts'ang, Ke-chia. "What Has Been Expressed in Ai Ch'ing's Recent Work?" In Hualing Nieh, ed. and co-trans., Literature of the Hundred Flowers Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia University Press, 1981, 278-82.


Ai Wu
Anderson, Marston. "Beyond Realism: The Eruption of the Crowd." In Anderson, The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period. Berkeley: UCP, 1990, 180-202.

Ge, Mai. "A Profile of Ai Wu." Trans. by Lei Ming. Chinese Literature (Summer, 1992): 40-43.

Wagner, Alexandra. "Ai Wu." In Dictionary of Literary Biography--Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949. Ed. Thomas Moran. NY: Thomson Gale, 2007, 3-9.


Alai
Yue, Gang. "As the Dust Settles in Shangri-La: Alai's Tibet in the Era of Sino-globalization." Journal of Contemporary China 56 (Aug. 2008): 543-63.

[Abstract: With the English translation of his novel Red Poppies published in 2000, the ethnic Tibetan author Alai has established a prominent presence outside the People's Republic, apart from the Shangri-La myth that has dominated the Western imagination of Tibet. This essay attempts to unpack the multitudes of meaning of the novel, situate it against a material history of opium in Eastern Tibet, and highlight the dilemma of a leading Tibetan author. Through further discussion of his essays unavailable in English, this essay aims at developing a cultural geography of Alai's intellectual travel, energized by a Tibetan warrior tradition in his homeland and yet detailed about contemporary social, cultural, and environmental changes. It paints a picture about a Tibet that is neither a paradise nor a human hell, alive in the moment to survive the creative destruction of Sino-globalization that began long before the People's Liberation Army marched into Lhasa.]

Ba Jin
Ba Jin. (Anarchy Archives, Pitzer College).

Briere, O., S. J. (1942). "Un romancier chinois contemporain Pa Kin." Bulletin de l'Universite de l'Aurore. Ser. 3, 3. 3 (1942): 577-598.

Chen Tan-chen. "Pa Chin the Novelist: An Interview." Chinese Literature. 6 (1963): 84-92.

Chen, Danchen. "Ba Jin's Literary Career." Beijing Review 25, 16 (1989): 22.

Duke, Michael S. "Ba Jin (1904- ): From Personal Liberation to Party 'Liberation.'" In Mason Y.H. Wang, ed., Perspectives in Contemporary Chinese Lterature. Michigan: Green River Press, 1983, 49-60.

Feng, Jin. "En/gendering the Bildungsroman of the Radical Male: Ba Jin's Girl Students and Women Revolutionaries." In Feng, The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2004, 83-100.

Galik, Marian. "Pa Chin's Cold Night: the Interliterary Relations with Zola and Wilde." In Galik, ed., Milestones in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation (1898-1979). Weisbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1986, 201-24.

Granat, Diana. Three Stories of France: Pa Chin and His Early Short Stories. M.A. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1972.

Hsia, C.T. "Pa Chin." In C.T. Hsia, A History of Modern Chinese Fiction. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971, 237-56, 375-88.

Kaldis, Nichola. "Ba Jin's Family: Fiction, Representation, and Relevance." In Joshua Mostow, ed, and Kirk A. Denton, China section, ed., Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literatures. NY: Columbia UP, 2003, 411-17.

-----. "Ba Jin." In David Levinson, ed., Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. ed. David Levinson. New York: Scribner's 2003, vol. 1: 209a-209b; Ref.: vol. 5: 244a-244b.

-----. "Ba Jin." In Dictionary of Literary Biography--Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949. Ed. Thomas Moran. NY: Thomson Gale, 2007, 310-25.

Kral, Oldrich. "Pa Chin's Novel The Family." In Jaroslav Prusek, ed. Studies in Modern Chinese Literature. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1964, 98-112.

Lang, Olga. Pa Chin and his Writings: Chinese Youth Between the Two Revolutions. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1967.

Lechowska, Teresa. "In Search of a New Ideal: The Metamorphoses of Pa Chin's Model Heroes." Archiv Orientalni 42 (1974): 310-22.

Mao, Nathan. Pa Chin. Boston: Twayne, 1978.

-----. "Pa Chin's Journey in Sentiment: From Hope to Despair." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 11 (1976): 131-37.

Ng, Mau Sang. "Ba Jin and Russian Literature." Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 3, 1 (Jan 1981): pp. 67-92. [available on PROJECT MUSE]

Shaw, Craig. "Changes in The Family: Reflections on Ba Jin’s Revisions of Jia." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 34, 2 (1999): 21-36

Tang, Xiaobing. "The Last Tubercular in Modern Chinese Literature: On Ba Jin's Cold Nights." In Chinese Modernism: The Heroic and the Quotidian. Durham: Duke UP, 2000, 131-60.


Bai Fengxi
Chen, Xiaomei. "A Stage of Their Own: The Problematics of Women's Theater in Post-Mao China." Journal of Asian Studies 56, 1 (1997): 3-25.

Tung, Constantine. "Tensions of Reconciliation: Individualisic Rebels and Social Harmony in Bai Fengxi's Plays." In Tung, ed., Drama in the People's Republic of China. Albany: SUNY Press, 1987, 233-53.


Bai Hua
Dolezalova, Anna. "Two Waves of Criticism of the Film Script Bitter Love and the Writer Bai Hua in 1981." Asian and Africn Studies 19 (1983): 27-54.

Duke, Michael S. "A Drop of Spring Rain: The Sense of Humanity in Pai Hua's Bitter Love (K'u-lien)." CLEAR 5 (1983): 67-89.

Kraus, Richard. "Bai Hua: The Political Authority of a Writer." In Carol Lee Hamrin and Timothy Cheek, eds., China's Establishment Intellectuals. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1986, 185-211.

Martin, Helmut. "The Drama Tragic Song of Our Time (Shidai de beige): Functions of Literature in the Eighties and Their Socio-political Limitations." In Constantine Tung and Colin Mackerras ed., Drama in the People's Republic of China. Albany: SUNY Press, 1987, 254-81.

Spence, Jonathan. "Film and Politics: Bai Hua's Bitter Love." In Spence, Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture. NY: W.W. Norton, 1992, 277-92.


Bai Wei
Dooling, Amy D. "Desire and Disease: Bai Wei and the Literary Left of the 1930s." In Charles Laughlin, ed., Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 51-60.

Findeisen, Raoul David. “Autobiographie als Collage--’Tragischer Lebenslauf’ von Bai Wei.” In Christina Neder et al. eds., China in Seinen Biographischen Dimension: Gedenkscrift fur Helmut Martin. Weisbaden: Harrossowitz Verlag, 2001, 113-28.

Liu, Jianmei. “Feminizing Politics: Reading Bai Wei and Lu Yin.” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 5, 2 (2002): 55-80.


Bai Xianyong (Pai Hsien-yung)
Chow, Rey. "'Love Me, Master, Love Me, Son': A Cultural Other Pornographically Constructed in Time." In John Hay, ed., Boundaries in China. London: Reaktion Books, 1994, 243-56.

Eom, Ik-sang. "The Death of Three Men: Characters in Pai Hsien-yung's Love Stories." Chinese Culture 32, 1 (1991): 83-98.

Hsia, C. T. "The Continuing Obsession with China." Review of National Literatures 6, 1 (1975). Rpt. in "Obsession with China (II): Three Taiwan Writers." In Hsia, A History of Modern Chinese Fiction. 3rd ed. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 363-86. [deals with Jiang Kui, Yu Guanzhong, and Bai Xianyong]

Lau, Joseph S.M. "Celestials and Commoners: Exiles in Pai Hsien-yung's Stories." Monumenta Serica 36 (1984-85): 409-23.

-----. "Crowded Hours' Revisited: The Evocation of the Past in Taipei Jen." Journal of Asian Studies 35, 1 (1975): 31-47.

Lee, Mabel. "In Lu Hsun's Footsteps...Pai Hsien-yung, A Modern Chinese Writer." Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 9 (1972/3): 74-83.

Lupke, Christopher. "(En)gendering the Nation in Pai Hsien-yung's Wandering in the Garden Waking from a Dream." Modern Chinese Literature 6, 1 /2 (1992): 157-178.

McFadden, Susan. "Tradition and Talent: Western Influence in the Works of Pai Hsien-yung." Tamkang Review 9, 3 (1979): 315-44.

Ou-yang, Tzu. "The Fictional World of Pai Hsien-yung." In Jeannette L. Faurot, ed., Chinese Fiction from Taiwan: Critical Perspectives. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1980, 166-78.

Riep, Steven. "A War of Wounds: Disability, Disfigurement, and Antiheroic Portrayals of the War of Resistance Against Japan." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 20, 1 (Spring 2008): 129-72. [treats, in part, Bai's story "New Year's Eve"]

Yang, Winston L.Y. "Pai Hsien-yung and Other Emigre Writers." In Winston L.Y. Yang and Nathan K. Mao, eds., Modern Chinese Fiction: A Guide to Its Study and Appreciation Essays and Bibliographies. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., 1981, 67-78.

Bao Mi
FlorCruz, Jaime A. "Secrets of a Hot Novel." Time (March 30, 1992). [On Bao Mi's Yellow Peril (Huanghuo)]

Bao Tianxiao
Link, Perry. "An Interview with Pao T'ien-hsiao." Renditions 17 /18: 241-253.

Ming, Feng-ying. "Bao Tianxiao." In Dictionary of Literary Biography--Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949. Ed. Thomas Moran. NY: Thomson Gale, 2007, 26-32.

Baobei, Anni
Yang, Xin. “Cyber Writing as Urban Fashion: The Case of Anni Baobei.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies 28 (2006): 121-131.

Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai)
Bei Dao. Website prepared in conjunction with the Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and the Arts.

Bei Dao Biography (Pegasos Website, Findland)

Huang, Yibing. “‘Green, how I love you green’: Lorca, Bei Dao’s Waves, and Sleepwalking in History.” World Literature Today 82, 6 (Nov.-Dec. 2008): 32-35.

"An Interview with Visting Artist Bei Dao: Poet in Exile." The Journal of the International Institute 2, 1 (Fall, 1994).

Janssen, Ronald R. "What History Cannot Write: Bei Dao and Recent Chinese Poetry." Critical Asian Studies 34, 2 (2002): 259-77.

Li, Dian. "Ideology and Conflicts in Bei Dao's Poetry." Modern Chinese Literature 9, 2 (1996): 369-86.

-----. "Translating Bei Dao: Translatability as Reading and Critique." Babel, the official journal of the International Federation of Translators 44, 4 (1999): 289-303. 

-----. The Chinese Poetry of Bei Dao, 1978-2000: Resistance and Exile. Lewiston / Queenston / Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

-----. "Paradox and Meaning in Bei Dao's Poetry." positions: east asia cultures critique 15, 1 (Spring 2007): 113-36. [Project Muse link]

Lin, Min. "The Search fro the 'Unknowable' and the Quest for Modernity in Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Discourse: A Philosophical Interpretation of Bei Dao's Short Story '13 Happiness Street'." Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 22-23 (1990-91): 57-70.

Lin, Min and Maria Galikowski. "Bei Dao's '13 Happiness Street' and the Young Generation's Quest for the 'Unknowable.'" In Min Lin and Maria Galikowski, The Search for Modernity: Chinese Intellectuals and Cultural Discourse in the Post-Mao Era. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999, 89-102.

McDougall, Bonnie S. "Bei Dao's Poetry: Revelation and Communication." Modern Chinese Literature 1, 2 (1985): 225-52.

-----. Zhao Zhenkai's Fiction: A Study in Cultural Alienation." Modern Chinese Literature 1, 1 (1984): 103-30.

-----. "Quest and Confrontation: The Poetic and Fictional Voices of Bei Dao/Zhao Zhenkai." In Bert Edström et al. eds., Vägar till Kina: Göran Malmqvist 60 år, Orientaliska studier, 1984: 49-50.

----- and Suzette Cooke. "Two Stories by Zhao Zhenkai: The Poetry and Fiction of Bei Dao/Zhao Zhenkai." Renditions 19/20 (1983): 122-124.

Owen, Stephen. "What Is World Poetry?" The New Republic (Nov. 19, 1990): 28-32.

Patton, Simon. "Review Article on Bei Dao." Modern Chinese Literature 9, 1 (1995): 139-145.

Pozzana, Claudia. "Distances of Poetry: An Introduction to Bei Dao." positions: east asia cultures critique 15, 1 (Spring 2007): 91-111. [Project Muse link]

Saussy, Han. "Bei Dao and His Audiences." Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and the Arts.

Tan, Chee-Lay. Constructing a System of Irregularities: The Poetry of Bei Dao, Duoduo and Yang Lian. Ph. D. diss. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2007.

Van Crevel, Maghiel. "Exile: Yang Lian, Wang Jiaxin and Bei Dao." In van Crevel, Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money, Leiden: Brill, 2008, 137-186.

Wedell-Wedellsborg, Anne: "Secrecy and Truth -- an interview with Bei Dao." In S. Clausen, R. Starrs and A. Wedell-Wedellsborg eds., Cultural Encounters: China, Japan and the West. Aarhus, Aarhus University Press, 1995, 227-240.

Williams, Philip. "A New Beginning for the Modernist Chinese Novel: Zhao Zhenkai's Bodong." Modern Chinese Literature 5, 1 (1989): 73-90.

-----. "Dystopian Warning: Zhao Zhenkai's 'No. 13 Happiness St.'" Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 25, 1 (1990): 57-66.

Bi Shumin
He, Zhenbang. "Bi Shuimin's Stories: Submersed in Reality." Chinese Literature (Spring 1997).

Bian Zhilin
Chen Bingying. Bian Zhilin pingzhuan (Critical biography of Bian Zhilin). Chongqing: Chongqing, 1998.

Fung, Mary M. Y. "Editor's Introduction." In Bian Zhilin, The Carving of Insects. HK: Renditions Books, 2006, 11-34.

Haft, Lloyd. Pien Chih-lin: A Study in Modern Chinese Poetry. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1983.

Hsu, Sang-fu. "The Less Mystery the Better." In Hualing Nieh, ed., Literature of the Hundred Flowers, Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1981, 195-98.

Jung, Woo-Kwang. A Study of 'The Han Garden Collection: New Approaches to Modern Chinese Poetry. Ph.D. diss. Seattle: University of Washington, 1997.

Liao, Christine M. Bian Zhilin and Ai Qing: A Comparative Study of Selected Poems, with Reference to Focus and Classical Cohesion. Ph. D. diss. University of Melbourne, 1982.

Liu, Lang. "We Don't Like This Poetic Style." In Hualing Nieh, ed., Literature of the Hundred Flowers, Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1981, 192-94.

Bing Xin (Hsieh Ping-hsin)
Anderson, Colena M. "A Study of Two Modern Chinese Women: Ping Hsin and Ting Ling." Ph.D. Dissertation. Pomona: Claremont Graduate School and University Center, 1954.

Bien, Gloria. "Images of Women In Ping Hsin's Fcition." In A. Palandri, ed. Women Writers of 20-Century China. Eugene: Asian Studies Publications, University of Oregon, 1982, 19-40.

Bouskova, Marcela. "The Stories of Ping Hsin." In Jaroslav Prusek, Studies in Modern Chinese LIterature. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1964, 114-129.

-----. "On the Origin of Modern Chinese Prosody: An Analysis of the Prosodic Components in the Works of Ping Hsin." Archiv Orientalni 32, 5 (1946): 619-43.

Larson, Wendy. "Female Subjectivity and Gender Relations: The Early Stories of Lu Yin and Bing Xin." In X. Tang and L. Kang, eds. Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China: Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique. Durham: Duke UP, 1993, 278-99.

McDougall, Bonnie. “Disappearing Women and Disappearing Men in May Fourth Narrative: A Post-Feminist Survey of Short Stories by Mao Dun, Bing Xin, Ling Shuhua and Shen Congwen.” In McDougall, Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century. HK: Chinese University Press, 2003, 133-70.

Pao, King-li. "Ping Hsin, A Modern Chinese Poetess." Literature East and West 8 (1964): 58-72.

Wang, Lingzhen. "Bing Xin." In Dictionary of Literary Biography--Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949. Ed. Thomas Moran. NY: Thomson Gale, 2007, 33-42.


Bo Yang
Lancashire, Edel. "Popeye and the Case of Guo Yidong, alias Bo Yang." The China Quarterly 92 (1982): 663-86.

Lin, Tzu-yao, ed. One Author is Rankling Two Chinas. Taipei: Sing Kung Book Co., 1989.

Cai Qijiao
Hsiao, Hsiang. "Which Thoughts, Which Feelings?" In Hualing Nieh, ed., Literature of the Hundred Flowers, Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1981, 206-10.

Cai Yi
Button, Peter. Aesthetic Formation and the Image of Modern China: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Cai Yi. Ph.d. diss. Ithaca: Cornell Univerity, 2000.

Button, Peter. "Global/Modern Figurations of the Type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman." In Peter Button, Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity. Leiden: Brill, 2009.


Cai Yuanpei
Duiker, William J. Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei, Educator of Modern China. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania University Press, 1977.

Lubot, Eugene. "Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei and the May Fourth Incident: One Liberal's Attitude Toward Student Activism." Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review 13, 2 (1972): 73-82.


Can Xue
Cai, Rong. "In the Madding Crowd: Self and Other in Can Xue's Fiction." China Information 11, 4 (Spring 1997): 41-57.

Can Xue's Blog (Sina.com)

Lu, Tonglin. "Can Xue: What is so Paranoid in Her Writing." In Lu, Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth Century Chinese Literature and Society. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993, 175-204. Rpt. in Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism and Oppositional Politics: Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995, 75-103.

McCandlish, Laura. "Stubbornly Illuminating 'the Dirty Snow that Refuses to Melt': A Conversation with Can Xue." MCLC Resource Center Publication, 2002.

Posborg, Susanne. "Can Xue: Tracing Madness." In Wendy Larson and Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg, eds., Inside Out: Modernism and Postmodernism in Chinese Literary Culture. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1993, 91-98.

Solomon, Jon. "Taking Tiger Mountain: Can Xue's Resistance and Cultural Critique." Modern Chinese Literature 4, 1/2 (1988): 235-62.

Wang, Ban. The Sublime Figure of History. Stanford: SUP, 1997. [final chapter has readings of Can Xue's fiction as examples of the anti-sublime]

Wedell-Wedellsborg, Anne. "Ambiguous Subjectivity: Reading Can Xue." Modern Chinese Literature 8, 1/2 (1994):7-20.

Yang, Xiaobin. "Can Xue: Discursive Dystopias." In Yang, The Chinese Postmodern: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avante-Garde Fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002, 129-49.

-----. "Can Xue: Ever-Haunting Nightmares." In Yang, The Chinese Postmodern: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avante-Garde Fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002, 74-92.

Zha, Peide. "Modernism Eastward: Franz Kafka and Can Xue." B.C. Asian Review 5 (1991).

Cao Guilin (Glen Cao)
Zhong, Xueping. "Multiple Readings and Personal Reconfigurations Against the 'Nationalist Grain.'" In Sharon K. Hom, ed., Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora. Garland Publishing, 1999, 103-25.

Cao Yu
Galik, Marian. "Ts'ao Yu's Thunderstorm: Creative Confrontation with Euripides, Racine, Ibsen and Galsworthy." In Galik, ed., Milestones in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation (1898-1979). Weisbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1986, 101-22.

Gunn, Edward. "Cao Yu's Peking Man and Literary Evocations of the Family in Republican China." Republican China 16, 1 (1990): 73-88.

Hu John Y.H. Ts'ao Yu. New York: Twayne, 1972.

Lau, Joseph S.M. Ts'ao Yu: The Reluctant Disciple of Chekhov and O'Neill: A Study in Literary Influence. HK: HKUP, 1970.

Noble, Jonathan. "Cao Yu and Thunderstorm." In Joshua Mostow, ed, and Kirk A. Denton, China section, ed., Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literatures. NY: Columbia UP, 2003, 446-51.

Robinson, Lewis S. "On the Sources and Motives Behind Ts'ao Yu's Thunderstorm: A Qualitative Analysis." Tamkang Review 16 (1983): 177-92.

Wang, Aixue. A Comparison of the Dramatic Work of Cao Yu and J. M. Synge. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 1999.

Chen Baichen
Kuoshu, Harry H. "Visualizing Ah Q: An Allegory's Resistance to Representation." In Harry Kuoshu, Lightness of Being in China: Adaptation and Discursive Figuration in Cinema and Theater. NY: Peter Lang, 1999, 17-49. [deals in part with Chen's film script]

Weinstein, John B. "Dong Xilin and Chen Baichen: Building a Modern Theater through Comedy." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 20, 2 (Fall 2008): 92-130.

Chen Cun
Chen, Jianguo. "The Logic of the Phantasm: Haunting and Spectrality in Contemporary Chinese Literary Imagination." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14, 1 (Spring 2002): 231-65. [deals with texts by Mo Yan, Chen Cun, and Yu Hua]

Chen Diexian
Hanan, Patrick. "The Autobiographical Romance of Chen Diexian." In Hanan, Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. NY: Columbia UP, 2004.

Lee, Haiyan. "All the Feelings That Are Fit to Print: The Community of Sentiment and the Literary Public Sphere in China, 1900-1918." Modern China 27, no. 3 (July 2001): 291-327. [deals in part with The Money Demons]

Chen Duxiu
Chen Duxiu.net [website devoted to the study of Chen Duxiu; in Chinese]

Feigon, Lee. Chen Duxiu, Founder of the Chinese Communist Party. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983.

Galik, Marian. "Hu Shih, Chou Tso-jen, Ch'en Tu-hsiu and the Beginning of Modern Chinese Literary Criticism." In Galik, The Genesis of Modern Chinese Liteary Criticism (1917-1930). London: Curzon Press, 1980, 9-27.

Kuo, Thomas. Chen Duxiu (1879-1942) and the Chinese Communist Movement. South Orange, NJ: Seton Hall University Press, 1975.

-----. "Ch'en Tu-hsiu (1879-1942) and Hu Shih (1891-1962)." Chinese Studies of History 31, 1 (Fall 1997): 23-54.

Schwartz, Benjamin. "Chen Tu-hsiu and the Acceptance of the Modern West." Journal of the History of Ideas 12, 1 (Jan. 1965): 61-74.

Chen Fang
Kinkley, Jeffrey C. "The Banned Blockbuster: Chen Fang's Heaven's Wrath." In Kinkley, Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China. Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 2007, 47-77. [Publisher's blurb]

Chen Hengzhe (Chen Nan-hua)
Hockx, Michel. "Mad Women and Mad Men: Intraliterary Contact in Early Republican Literature." In Findeison and Gassmann, eds., Autumn Floods: Essays in Honour of Marian Galik. Bern: Peter Lang, 1997.

"Chen Hengzhe." In H.L. Boorman and R.D. Howard, eds. Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. 4 vols. NY: Columbia UP, 1967, 1: 183-87.

Ng, Janet. “Chen Hengzhe’s Fiction of Aurality: The New Feminine Strategy.” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 4, 2 (2000): 63-86.

-----. "A New Strategy for Autobiographical Narratives: Chen Hengzhe's Writing of Aurality." In Ng, The Experience of Modernity: Chinese Autobiography of the Early Twentieth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002, 21-40.


Chen Jingrong
Almberg, Shui-Pang. The Poetry of Chen Jingrong: A Modern Chinese Woman Poet. Stockholm: Foringen for Orientaliska Studier, 1988.


Chen Jitong
Yeh, Catherine Vance. “The Life-Style of Four Wenren in Late Qing Shanghai.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 57, 1 (1997): 419-70. [deals with Wang Tao, Chen Jitong, Zeng Pu, and Jin Songcen]


Chen Ran
Chen Ran's Blog (Sina.com)

Heinrich, Larissa N. "Good-bye Mr. Nixon": A Review of A Private Life." MCLC Resource Center (January 2005).

Huot, Claire. "Chen Ran's Western Footnotes." In Huot, China's New Cultural Scen: A Handbook of Changes. Durham: Duke UP, 2000, 36-41.

Larson, Wendy. "Women and the Discourse of Desire in Postrevolutionary China: The Awkward Postmodernism of Chen Ran." Boundary 2 24, 3 (1997). In Xudong Zhang and Arif Dirlik, eds., Postmodernism and China. Durham: Duke UP, 2000, 337-57.

Lin, Songyu. "Interview with Chen Ran by Lin Songyu." Tr. Chen Minglu and Damien Spry. The IIS Interview Series (Beijing—Guangzhou; December 2006).

Schaffer, Kay and Xianlin Song. "Narrative, Trauma and Memory: Chen Ran's APrivate Life, Tiananmen Square and Female Embodiment." Asian Studies Review 30, 2 (June 2006): 161-173.

-----. "Writing Beyond the Wall: Translation, Cross-cultural Exchange, and Chen Ran's A Private Life." Portal 3, 2 (2006).

Sieber, Patricia. "Chen Ran." In Sieber, ed. Red Is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, 183-85.

Wang, Lingzhen. "Reproducing the Self: Consumption, Imaginary, and Identity in Chinese Women's Autobiographical Practice in the 1990ss." In Charles Laughlin, ed., Contested Modernity in Chinese Literature. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 173-92. [deals primarily with Chen Ran's Private Life and Lin Bai's Self at War]

Visser, Robin. "Privacy and its Ill Effects in Post-Mao Urban Fiction." In Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson, eds. Chinese Concepts of Privacy. Leiden: Brill, 2002,171-194. [deals with texts by Chen Ran and Liu Heng, with bits on Sun Ganlu, Qiu Huadong, and Zhu Wen]


Chen Ruoxi (Ch'en Jo-hsi)
Duke, Michael S. "Personae: Individual and Society in Three Novels by Chen Ruoxi." In Michael S. Duke, ed., Modern Dhinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals. NY: M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1989, 53-77.

Hsu, Kai-yu. "A Sense of History: Reading Chen Jo-hsi's Stories." In Jeannette L. Faurot, ed., Chinese Fiction from Taiwan: Critical Perspectives. Bloomington: IUP, 1980, 206-33.

Kao, George, ed. Two Writers and the Cultural Revolution: Lao She and Chen Jo-hsi. HK: Chinese University Press, 1980.

Lau, Joseph S. M. "The Stories of Ch'en Juo-hsi." In Wai-lim Yip, ed., Chinese Arts and Literature: A Survey of Recent Trends. Occasional Papers/Reprint Series in Contemporary Asian Studies. Baltimore, 1977, 5-16.

Lee, Leo Ou-fan. "Dissent Literature from the Cultural Revolution." Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 1, 1 (1979): 59-79.

Leys, Simon. "Who is Chen Jo-hsi?" In Chen Jo-hsi, The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Bloomington: IUP, 1978, xxii-xxviii.

McCarthy, Richard M. "Chen Jo-hsi: Memoirs and Notes." Renditions 10 (Autumn 1978): 90-92.

Chen Xue
Martin, Fran. "Chen Xue's Queer Tactics." positions: east Asia cultures critique 7, 1 (Spring 1999): 165-91.

Sieber, Patricia. "Chen Xue." In Sieber, ed. Red Is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, 185-86.

Chen Yingzhen (Ch'en Ying-chen)
Chen, Li-fen. Fictionality and Reality in Narrative Discourse: A Reading of Four Contemporary Taiwanese Writers. Ph. D. diss. Seattle: University of Washington, 2000.[chapters on Ch'en Ying-chen, Ch'i-Teng Sheng, Wang Chen-ho, and Wang Wen-hsing; available through Dissertation.com]

Kinkley, Jeffrey. "From Oppression to Dependency: Two Stages in the Fiction of Chen Yingzhen." Modern China 16 (1990): 243-68.

Lau, Joseph S.M. "Death in the Void: Three Tales of Spiritual Atrophy in Ch'en Ying-chen's Post-Incarceration Fiction." Modern Chinese Literature 2 (1986): 21-28.

-----. "How Much Truth Can a Blade of Grass Carry?: Ch'en Ying-chen and the Emergence of Native Taiwan Writers." Journal of Asian Studies 32, 4 (Aug. 1973): 623-38.

-----. "Ch'en Ying-chen and Other Native Writers." In Winston L.Y. Yang and Nathan K. Mao, eds., Modern Chinese Fiction: A Guide to Its Study and Appreciation Essays and Bibliographies. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., 1981, 79-94.

Miller, Lucien. "A Break in the Chain: The Short Stories of Ch'en Ying-chen." In Jeannette L. Faurot, ed., Chinese Fiction from Taiwan: Critical Perspectives. Bloomington: IUP, 1980, 86-109.

----. "Introduction." In Exiles at Home: Short Stories By Ch'en Ying-chen. Trans. and ed. by Lucien Miller. Ann Arbor : Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1986, 1-26.

-----. "Occidentalism and Alterity: Native Self and Foreign Other in Chen Yingzhen and Shusaku Endo." Chinoperl Papers 20-22 (1997-99): 197-218.

Pieper, Anke. Der taiwanesische Autor Chen Yingzhen--mit einer Ubersetzung der Erzahlung 'Wolken'. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1987.

Robinson, Lewis S. "The Treatment of Christianity in the Fiction of Chen Yingchen." Ching Feng: Quarterly Notes on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture 32, 1 (Mar. 1989): 41-81.

Shieh, Wen-shan. "Ideology, Sublimation, Violence: The Transformation of Heroines in Chen Ying-chen's Suicidal Narratives." Tamkang Review 32, 2 (Winter 2001): 153-74.

Wang, David Der-wei. "Three Hungry Women." Boundary 2. Special Issue ed. Rey Chow. 25, 2 (Fall 1998): 47-76. [deals in part with Chen's "Mountain Path"]

Yang, Xiaobin. "Telling (Hi)story: Illusory Truth or True Illusion." Tamkan Review 21, 2 (1990): 127-47.


Chen Yun
Tang, Xiaobing. "The Lyrical Age and Its Discontents: On the Staging of Socialist New China in The Young Generation." In Chinese Modernism: The Heroic and the Quotidian. Durham: Duke UP, 2000, 163-95.

Cheng Fangwu
Galik, Marian. "Ch'eng Fangwu and his Development from Soci-aesthetic to 'Total Criticism.'" In Galik, The Genesis of Modern Chinese Literary Criticism, 1917-1930. London: Curzon Press, 1980, 63-103.


Cheng Naishan
Bi, Bingbin. "Shanghai's Magic: A Day-and-Night Stream." In Cheng Naishan, The Blue House. Beijing: Chinese Literature, 1989, 7-14.

Cheng Xiaoqing (Ch'eng Hsiao-ch'ing)
Tam, King-fai. "The Detective Fiction of Ch'eng Hsiao-ch'ing." Asia Major 1 (1992): 113-32.

Wong, Timothy C. "Cheng Xiaoqing." In Dictionary of Literary Biography--Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949. Ed. Thomas Moran. NY: Thomson Gale, 2007, 43-52.

Chi Li
Lee, Lily Xiao-hong. "Localizaiton and Globalization: Dichotomy and Convergence in Chi Li's Fiction." Canadia Review of Comparative Literature (Dec. 1997): 913-26.

Lu, Jie. "Cultural Invention and Cultural Intervention: Reading Chinese Urban Fiction of the Nineties." Modern Chinese Liteature and Culture 13, 1 (Spring 2001): 107-39.

Cong Weixi
Liu, Shaotang. "A Profile of Cong Weixi." Chinese Literature 4 (April 1980): 57-60.

Cui Zi'en
Wang, Qi. "The Ruin Is Already a New Outcome: An Interview with Cui Zi'en." positions: east asia cultures critique 12, 1 (Spring 2004): 181-94.

Dai Houying
Knight, Sabina. "Historical Trauma and Humanism in Post-Mao Realism." In The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006, 162-190. [deals with Dai's Humanity, O Humanity (171-85) and Soft is the Chain (185-90)]

Pruyn, Carolyn S. Humanism in Modern Chinese Literature: The Case of Dai Houying. Bochum: Brockmeyer (Chinathenmen), 1988.

Wang, David D.W. "Tai Hou-ying, Feng Chi-ts'ai, and Ah Ch'eng: Three Approaches to the Historical Novel." Asian Culture Quarterly 15, 2 (1988): 71-88.

Dai Qing
Barme, Geremie. "Using the Past to Serve the Present: Dai Qing's Historiographic Dissent." East Asian History 1 (June 1991): 141-81.

Barme, Geremie and Linda Jaivin. New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices. NY: Times Books, 1992, 358-62.

Wandel, Elke. "Dai Qing: A Portrait." In China for Women: Travel and Culture. NY: The Feminist Press, 1995, 201-04

Dai Wangshu
Lee, Gregory. Dai Wangshu: The Life and Poetry of a Chinese Modernist. HK: The Chinese University Press,1989. [a study with extensive translations]

Lee, Gregory. "Western Influences in the Poetry of Dai Wangshu." Modern Chinese Literature 3, 1/2 (1987): 7-32.

Mi, Jiayan. Self-Fashioning and Reflexive Modernity in Modern Chinese Poetry. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2004.

[Abstract: This study explores diverse modes of self-fashioning in the discursive formation of Chinese modernity between 1919 and 1949 in modern Chinese poetry. By focusing on four representative poets of modern Chinese poetry before 1949—Guo Moruo, Li Jinfa, Dai Wangshu, and Mu Dan, the study offers fresh, insightful analysis of the dynamic trajectory of the historical complexity of fashioning a new modern self-subjectivity with relation to the nation-state. Theoretically informed by the varied perspectives of modernity, the self, the body, and memory, the author for the first time reveals how the corporeal body emerges as a site of agency, trauma, and libidinal investment for engaging with the configuration of a multi-layered self, gender, and nationhood in modern China. This work will make several significant contributions to enhancing readers’ understanding of the cultural and psychological complexity of modern China. This work will be of interest to teachers, students and scholars of modern Chinese literature and culture as well as comparative literature.]

Dan Di
Smith, Norman. "The Difficulties of Despair: Dan Di and Chinese Literary Production in Manchukuo." Journal of Women's Studies 18, 1 (2006): 77-100.

Deng Tuo
Cheek, Timothy. Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Chuang, H. C. Evening Chats at Yenshan, or the Case of Teng T'o. Studies in Chinese Communist Terminology, no. 14. Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, 1970.

Deng Youmei
Rees, Robert A. "A Conversation with Deng Youmei, Secretary of the Chinese Writer's Association." Weber Studies 10, 3 (Fall 1993).

Yang, Gladys. "Deng Youmei and His Fiction." In Yang Bian, ed., The Time is Not Ripe: Contemporary China's Best Writers and Their Stories. Beijing: FLP, 1991, 41-47.

Ding Ling
Alber, Charles J. "Ting Ling and the Front Service Corps." In La litterature au temps de la Geurre de Resistance contre le Japon de 1937 a 1945. Paris: Editions de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1982, 117-30.

-----. Enduring the Revolution: Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in Guomindang China. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

Alber, Charles J. Embracing the Life: Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in the PRC. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.

Anderson, Colena M. "A Study of Two Modern Chinese Women: Ping Hsin and Ting Ling." Ph.D. Dissertation. Pomona: Claremont Graduate School and University Center, 1954.

Barlow, Tani. "'Thoughts on March 8' and the Literary Expression of Ding Ling's Feminism." In La litterature au temps de la Geurre de Resistance contre le Japon de 1937 a 1945. Paris: Editions de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1982, 131-44.

-----. "Gender and Identity in Ding Ling's 'Mother.'" Modern Chinese Literature 2, 2 (1986): 123-42.

-----. "Feminism and Literary Technique in Ting Ling's Early Short Stories." In A. Palandri, ed. Women Writers of 20-Century China. Eugene: Asian Studies Publications, University of Oregon, 1982, 63-110.

Bjorge, Gary J. "'Sophia's Diary': An Introduction." Tamkang Review 5, 1 (1974): 97-110.

-----. "Ting Ling's Early Years: Her Life and Literature through 1942." Ph.D. Dissertation. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1977.

Chang, Jun-mei. Ting Ling, Her Life and Her Work. Taipei: Institute of International Relations, 1978.

Chien, Ying-ying. "Women Crossing the Wild Zone: Sexual/Textual Politics in the Fiction of Ding Ling and Li Ang." Fu Jen Studies 28 (1995): 1-17.

Dien, Dora Shu-fang. "Ding Ling and 'Miss Sophie's Diary': A Psychobiographical Study of Adolescent Identity Formation." Making Meaning of Narratives: The Narrative Study of Lives 6: 221-237.

-----. Ding Ling and Her Mother: A Cultural Psychological Study. Huntinton, NY: Nova Science, 2001.

Feng, Jin. "The 'Bold Modern Girl': Ding Ling's Early Fiction." In Feng, The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2001, 149-70.

-----. "The Revolutionary Age: Ding Ling's Fiction of the Early 1930s." In Feng, The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2001, 171-88.

-----. "Ding Ling in Yan'an: A New Woman within the Part Structure?" In Feng, The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2001, 189-96,

Feng, Xiaxiong. "Ding Ling's Reappearance on the Literary Stage." Chinese Literature 1 (1980): 3-16.

Feng, Hsueh-feng. "On The Sun Shines over the Sangkan River." In Hualing Nieh, ed., Literature of the Hundred Flowers, Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1981, 257-65.

Feuerwerker, Yi-tsi Mei. Ding Ling's Fiction: Ideology and Narrative in Modern Chinese Literature. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1982.

-----. "The Changing Relationship between Literature and Life: Aspects of the Writer's Role in Ding Ling [Ting Ling]." In Merle Goldman, ed. Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977, 281-307.

-----. "Ting Ling's 'When I was in Sha Chuan (Cloud Village)'." Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2, 1 (1976): 255-79.

-----. "The Uses of Literature: Ding Ling in Yan'an." In W. Kubin and R. Wagner, eds., Essays in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Literary Criticism. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1981.

Huang, Xincun. “Politics, Gender and Literary Writings: A Study of Ding Ling in the Early 1940s.” Journal of Asian Culture 14 (1990): 33-54.

Kinkley, Jeffrey. “Echoes of Maxim Gorky in the Works of Ding Ling and Shen Congwen.” In Marian Galik, ed., Interliterary and Intraliterary Aspects of the May Fourth Movement 1919 in China. Bratislava: Veda, 1990, 179-88.

Kubin, Wolfgang. "Sexuality and Literature in the People's Republic of China, Problems of the Chinese woman before and after 1949 as seen in Ding Ling's 'Diary of Sophia' (1928) and Xi Rong's story 'An Unexceptional Post' (1962)." In Wolfgang Kubin and Rudolf G. Wagner, eds., Essays in Modern Chinese Literature and Literary Criticism. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1982, 168-91.

-----. "Ding Ling's Yan'an Short Story 'The Night' (1940)." in La litterature chinoise au temps de la guerre de resistance contre le Japon. Paris: Editions de la Fondation Singer- Polignac, 1982, 147-53.

Lai, Amy Tak-yee. "Liberation, Confusion, Imprisonment: The Female Self in Ding Ling's 'Diary of Miss Sophie' and Zhang Jie's 'Love Must Not Be Forgotten.'" Comparative Literatue and Culture 3 (Sept. 1998): 88-103.

Lo, Man Wa. "Female Selfhood and Initiation in Shen Congwen's The Border Town and Ding Ling's The Girl Ah Mao." Chinese/International Comparative Literature Bulletin 1 (1996): 20-33.

Mao, Tun et al. "Excerpts from Criticism of Ding Ling." In Hualing Nieh, ed., Literature of the Hundred Flowers, Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1981, 266-72.

Moran, Thomas. "Ding Ling." In Dictionary of Literary Biography--Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949. Ed. Thomas Moran. NY: Thomson Gale, 2007, 53-65.

Shen, Congwen. Ji Ding Ling (Remembering Ding Ling). Shanghai: Liangyou, 1934.

Tang, Xiaobing. "Shanghai Spring 1930: Engendering the Revolutionary Body." In Chinese Modernism: The Heroic and the Quotidian. Durham: Duke UP, 2000, 97-130.

Wang, Shunzhu. "The Double-Voiced Feminine Discouses in Ding Ling's 'Miss Sophie's Diary' and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Tamkang Review 27, 1 (1997): 133-158.

Yuan Liangjun. "On the Fiction of Ding Ling." Tr. Song Xianchun. Social Sciences in China 7, 3 (1986): 131-50.

Zhang, Jingyuan. "Feminism and Revolution: The Work and Life of Ding Ling." In Joshua Mostow, ed, and Kirk A. Denton, China section, ed., Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literatures. NY: Columbia UP, 2003, 395-400.

Zhou Liangpei. Ding Ling zhuan (Biography of Ding Ling). Beijing: Beijing shiyue wenyi, 1993.


Ding Mang
Wang, Shu and I Sha. "Vulgar Feelings and Gloomy Heart." In Hualing Nieh, ed., Literature of the Hundred Flowers, Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1981, 181-86.


Ding Wenjiang
Fiskesjö, Magnus and Chen Xingcan. China Before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang and the Discovery of China's Prehistory. Bilingual ed. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 2004.

Furth, Charlotte. Ting Wen-chiang: Science and China's New Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.


Ding Xilin
Lau, Joseph S.M. "Oppression as a Situational Comedy: A Note on the Stagecraft of Ting Hsi-lin." In William Nienhauser, Jr., ed., Critical Essays on Chinese Literature. HK: CUP, 1976, 113-34.

Weinstein, John B. "Dong Xilin and Chen Baichen: Building a Modern Theater through Comedy." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 20, 2 (Fall 2008): 92-130.

Weinstein, John B. and Carsey Yee. "Introduction to the Translation of 'Flushed with Wine': Reclaiming Amateur Drama." MCLC Resource Center Publication (March 2004).

Dong Hong
Dong, Hong. "My Stories." Chinese Literature (Spring 1997).

Du Pengcheng
n.a. "Crush Peng Te-huai's 'Rebellious Dispositions'--thoroughly criticize and repudiate the anti-party novel Defense of Yenan." Selections from Mainland Magazines 606 (Dec. 18, 1967): 11-16.

Li, Peter. "War and Modernity in Chinese Military Fiction." Society 34, 5 (July 1997): 77-89. [deals in part with Du Pengcheng's Defend Yan'an and Wu Qiang's Red Sun]  

Duanmu Hongliang
Hsia, C.T. "The Novels of Tuan-mu Hung-liang." In Joseph S.M. Lau and Leo Ou-fan Lee, eds., Critical Persuasions, forthcoming.

-----. "The Korchin Banner Plains: A Biographical and Critical Study." in La Litterature Chinoise au Temps de la Guerre de Resistance contre Japon (de 1937 a 1945). Paris, Editions de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1982, 31-56.

Kong, Haili. "The Spirit of 'Native-Soil' in the Fictional World of Duanmu Hongliang and Mo Yan." China Information 11, 4 (Spring 1997): 58-67.

-----. "In Memorianm: Duanmu Hongliang (1912-1996)." China Information 11, 4 (Spring 1997): 58-67.

-----. "What Did Literary Patronage Mean to an Individualistic Writer in the 1930s: The Case of Duamu Honglian." Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 2, 1 (July 1998): 31-52.


Duo Duo
Huang, Yibing. “Duo Duo: An Impossible Farewell, or, Exile between Revolution and Modernism.” Amerasia Journal 27, 2 (2001): 64-85.

-----. "Duo Duo: An Impossible Farewell, or, Exile between Revolution and Modernism." In Huang, Contemporary Chinese Literature: From the Cultural Revolution to the Future. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Tan, Chee-Lay. Constructing a System of Irregularities: The Poetry of Bei Dao, Duoduo and Yang Lian. Ph. D. diss. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2007.

Van Crevel, Maghiel. "Man and Nature, Man and Man: Aspects of Duoduo's Poetry." In Lloyd Haft, ed., Words from the West: western texts in Chinese literary context: essays to honor Erik Zurcher on his sixty-fifth birthday. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 1993, 100-15.

-----. Language Shattered: Contemporary Chinese Poetry and Duoduo. Leiden: CNWS Research School, 1996.

Er Yuehe
Zhou, Baiyi. "Er Yuehe and Contemporary Historical Novels." Tr. Zhang Siying.Chinese Literature (Autumn 1998).  

Fang Fang
Wu, Lijuan. "Fang Fang, Reflecting Her Times." Tr. Li Ziliang. Chinese Literature (Summer 1997).

Fang Ji
Decker, Margeret. "Living in Sin: From May Fourth via the Antirightist Movement to the Present." In Ellen Widmer and David Wang, eds., From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentiety-Century China. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993, 221-46.

Fang Lingru
Wagner, Alexandra R. "Tradition as Construct and the Search for a Modern Identity: A Reading of Traditional Gestures in Modern Chinese Essays of Place." In Martin Woesler, ed., The Modern Chinese Literary Essay: Defining the Chinese Self in the 20th Century. Bochum: Bochum UP, 2000, 133-46. [deals with Yu Dafu, Zhu Ziqing, and Fang Lingru]

Fei Ming, see Feng Wenbing

Feng Jicai
Braester, Yomi and Zhang Enhua. “The Future of China’s Memories: An Interview with Feng Jicai.” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 5, 2 (2002): 131-48.

Feng Jicai's Blog (Sina.com)

Gaenssbauer, Monika. "The Cultural Revolution in Feng Jicai’s Fiction." In Woei Lian Chong, ed., China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, 319-44.

Li, Jun. "Feng Jicai: A Giant of a Writer in More Ways Than One." In Yang Bian, ed., The Time is Not Ripe: Contemporary China's Best Writers and Their Stories. Beijing: FLP, 1991, 78-84.

Martin, Helmut. "What If History Has Merely Played a Trick on Us? Feng Chi-ts'ai's Writing, 1979-1984." In Reform and Revolution in Twentieth Century China. Taipei: Institute of International Relations, 1987, 277-90. Rpt as a book: Taipei: Institute of International Relations, National Cheng-chi University, 1987.

Wang, David. "Tai Hou-ying, Feng Chi-Ts'ai and Ah Cheng: Three Approaches to the Historical Novel." Asian Culture Quarterly 16, 2 (1988): 70-88.


Feng Naichao
Galik, Marian. "The Red Gauze Lantern of Feng Naich'ao." Asian and African Studies, 10 (1974): 69-95.

-----. "Feng Naich'ao's The Red Gauze Lantern and French Symbolism." In Galik, ed., Milestones in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation (1898-1979). Weisbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1986, 135-52.

-----. "Feng Nai-ch'ao, Li Ch'u-li and their Leftis Theory of Art and Literature." In Galik, The Genesis of Modern Chinese Liteary Criticism (1917-1930). London: Curzon Press, 1980, 308-20.


Feng Wenbing
Dang, Shengyuan and Gao Jie. "About Fei Ming." Tr. Li Guoqing. Chinese Literature (Spring 1990): 123-27.

Gunn, Edward. Rewriting Chinese: Style and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Chinese Prose. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991, 125-29, 284-86.

Lee, Haiyan. "The Other Chinese: Romancing the Folk in May Fourth Native Soil Fiction.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies ( special issue: “Ethics and Ethnicity”) 33, 2 (Sept. 2007): 9-34. [Deals with the works of Yang Zhensheng, Fei Ming, and Shen Congwen.]

Li, Ningyi. "Fei Ming's Short Stories: A Poetry of Folk Elements." Studies on Asia Series II, 2, 2 (Fall 2005): 112-25.

Liu, Haoming. "Fei Ming's Poetics of Representation: Dream, Fantasy, Illusion, and Alayavijnana." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 13, 2 (Fall 2001): 30- 71.

-----. Transformation of Childhood Experience: Rainer Maria Rilke and Fei Ming. Ph.d. diss. New Haven: Yale University, 2001.

Shih, Shu-mei. "Writing English with a Chinese Brush: The Work of Fei Ming." In Shi, The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937. Berkeley: UC Press, 2001, 190-203.

Feng Xuefeng
n.a. "Criticism of the Writer Feng Xuefeng." Survey of the China Mainland Press 1607 (Sept. 11, 1957): 6-12.

Ho, Ch'i-fang. "The Anti-Party, Anti-Marxist Literary and Social Thought of Feng Hsueh-feng." In Hualing Nieh, ed. and co-trans., Literature of the Hundred Flowers Volume II: Poetry and Fiction. NY: Columbia University Press, 1981, 310.

Feng Yuanjun
Feng, Jin. "Sentimental Autobiographies: Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin and the New Woman." In Feng, The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2004, 126-148.

Feng Zhi
Cheung, Dominic. Feng Chih. Boston: Twayne, 1979.

Galik, Marian. "Feng Chih's Sonnets: the Interliterary Relations with German Romanticism, Rilke and van Gogh." In Galik, ed., Milestones in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation (1898-1979). Weisbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1986, 177-200.

-----. "Feng Zhi and His Goethean Sonnet." In Masayuki Akiyama and Yiu-nam Leung, eds., Crosscurrents in the literatures of Asia and the West: Essays in Honor of A. Owen Aldridge. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1997, 123-34.

Haft, Lloyd. "Some Rhythmic Structures in Feng Zhi's Sonnets." Modern Chinese Literature 9, 2 (1996): 297-326.

Feng Zikai
Barme, Geremie. An Artist Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1978). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Harbsmeier, Christoph. The Cartoonist Feng Zikai: Social Realism with a Buddhist Face. Oslo: Universitetforlaget, 1984.

Hung, Chang-tai. "War and Peace in Feng Zikai's Wartime Cartoons." Modern China 16 (Jan. 1990): 39-83.

Fu Lin
Hanan, Patrick. "Introduction." In The Sea of Regret: Two Turn of the Century Chinese Romantic Novels. Trs. Patrick Hanan. Honolulu: University of Hawii Press, 1995, 1-17.

Fu Sinian
Wang, Fan-sen. Fu Ssu-nien: A Life in Chinese History and Politics. NY: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Gao Xiaosheng
Decker, Margeret. The Vicissitudes of Satire in Contemporary Chinese Fiction: Gao Xiaosheng. Ph.d. diss. Stanford University, 1987.

-----. "Living in Sin: From May Fourth via the Antirightist Movement to the Present." In Ellen Widmer and David Wang, eds., From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentiety-Century China. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993, 221-46.

Faurot, Jeanette L. "Shoes That Fit-- The Stories of Gao Xiaosheng." In Mason Y.H. Wang, ed., Perspectives in Contemporary Chinese Literature. Michigan: Green River Press, 1983, 77-88.

Feuerwerker, Yi-tsi Mei. "An Interview with Gao Xiaosheng." MCL 3, 1/2 (Spring/Fall 1987): 113-35.

-----. "Reassesing the Past in the 'New Era': Gao Xiaosheng." In Feuerwerker, Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant "Other" in Modern Chinese Literature. Stanford: SUP, 1998, 146-87.

Kuiper, P.N. "A Critical Writer Feasted by his 'Characters': Gao Xiaosheng's Novelette Hutu (Foolishness)." In Helmut Martin, ed., Cologne-Workshop 1984 on Contemporary Chinese Literature: Chinesische Gegenwartsliteratur. Koln: Deutsche Welle, 1986.

Li, Guoqing. "Roots in the Same Land: On Hwang Ch'un-ming and Kao Hsiao-sheng's Stories." Chinese Culture 38, 3 (1997): 117-35.

Wagner, Rudolf. Inside the Service Trade: Studies in Contemporary Chinese Prose. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1992, 431-80. [deals with "Li Shundao Builds a House"]


Gao Xingjian
Anon. "News Brief: A Traditionalist." Asian Art News 8, 4 (Jul/Aug 1998): 15.

Barme, Geremie. "A Touch of the Absurd--Introducing Gao Xingjian and His Play The Bus Stop." Renditions. 19/20 (1983): 373-77.

Baum, Julian. "Peking's Wildman Jolts Theater Goers." The Christian Science Monitor (June 24, 1985): 9-10.

Burckhardt, Olivier. "The Voice of One in the Wilderness." Quadrant (April 2000).

CND Special Supplement of HuaXia wenzhai on Gao Xingjian [in Chinese].

Chan, Wai-sim. "Postscript: On Seeing the Play Bus Stop: He Wen's Critique in the Literary Gazette." Renditions 19/20 (1983): 387-92.

Chen, Jianguo. "In Search of 'Origin': Gao Xingjian's Nostalgic Journey to 'Being'." In Chen, The Aesthetics of the 'Beyond': Phantasm, Nostaligia, and the Literary Practice in Contemporary China. Newark: University of Deleware Press, 2009, 126-61.

Chen, Xiaomei. "A Wildman Between Two Cultures: Some Paradigmatic Remarks on 'Influence Studies." Comparative Literature Studies 29:4 (1992):397-417. Rpt. in Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 89-110.

-----. "A Wildman Between the Orient and the Occident: Retro-Influence in Comparative Lierary Studies." In Chen, Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China. NY: Oxford UP, 1995, 99-118. [on Gao's play Yeren]

Conceison, Claire. “Fleshing out the Dramaturgy of Gao Xingjian.” MCLC Resource Center Publication (Dec. 2002).

Dutrait, Noel. "Richly Rewarding: The Work of Gao Xingjian, Bibliography of a Nobel Prize Winner." China Perspectives 34 (March - April 2001): 66

Engdahl, Horace. Interview with the 2000 Nobel Laureate for Literature (Dec. 13, 2000). [downloadable video interview with Gao Xingjian]

Findeisen, Raoul. "Exil als Existenzform – Einführung in Leben und Werk." In Gao Xingjian, Der Berg der Seele (2001).

Fong, Gilbert C. F. "Introduction." The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian. HK: The Chinese University Press, 1999, ix-xlii.

-----. "Gao Xingjian and the Idea of Theatre." In Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 147-55.

Gao Xingjian Collection (website of the Chinese University of Hong Kong special Gao Xingjian collection, opened Dec. 2004)

Gao Xingjian: Reward on the 'Other Side.' (extensive website in Chinese devoted to Gao)

Gao Xingjian and Liu Zaifu. "Leaving the Twentieth Century Behind: A Conversation between Gao Xingjian and Liu Zaifu." Tr. Caroline Mason. China Perspectives 3 (2008): 118-22.

Gentz, Natascha. "How to Get Rid of China: Ethnicity, Memory, and Trauma in Gao Xingjian's One Man's Bible." In Natascah Gentz and Stefan Kramer, eds., Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006, 119-42.

He, Wen. "On Seeing the Play The Bus Stop." Tr. Chan Sin-wai. Renditions 19/20 (1983): 387-92.

Jian, Ming. "In Search of Creativity: Agony and Ecstasy in Gao Xingjian's Lingshan." Asiatische Studien/Etdues Asiatiques 58, 4 (2004): 931-62.

Kinkley, Jeffrey C. "Gao Xingjian in the "Chinese" Perspective of Qu Yuan and Shen Congwen." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14, 2 (Fall 2002): 130-162.

Kuoshu, Harry H. "Will Godot Come by Bus or through a Trace? Discussion of a Chinese Absurdist Play." Modern Drama 41, 3 (Fall 1998): 461-73.

Labedzka, Izabella. Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre: From the Word to the Image. Leiden: Brill, 2008. [press webpage]

[Abstract: This book argues that Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatrical, literary, artistic and philosophical traditions.The author aims to show how Gao's theories of the theatre of anti-illusion, theatre of conscious convention, of the "poor theatre" and total theatre, of the neutral actor and the actor - jester - storyteller are derived from the Far Eastern tradition, and to what extent they have been inspired by 20th century Euro-American reformers of theatre such as Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor. Although Gao's plays and theatre form the major subject, this volume also pays ample attention to his painting and passion for music as sources of his dramaturgical strategies.]

Lai, Amy. "Gao Xingjian's Monologue as Metadrama." In Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 133-45.

Larson, Wendy. "Realism, Modernism, and the Anti-'Spiritual Pollution' Campaign in Modern China." Modern China 15, 1 (Jan. 1989): 37-71. [pp. 48-57 are a discussion of the debate on modernism in the well-known essays of Gao Xingjian, Xu Chi, and Xu Jingya.]

Lee, Gregory and Noel Dutrait. "Conversations with Gao Xingjian: The First 'Chinese' Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature." The China Quarterly 167 (2001): 738-84. [pdf version on The China Quarterly website]

Lee, Mabel. "Without Politics: Gao Xingjian on Literary Creation." Stockholm Journal of East Asian Studies 6 (1995): 82-101.

-----. "Gao Xingjian's Dialogue with Two Dead Poets from Shaoxing: Xu Wei and Lu Xun." In Findeison and Gassmann, eds., Autumn Floods: Essay in Honour of Marian Galik. Bern: Peter Lang, 1997. Rpt. in Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 277-91.

-----. "Walking Out of Other People's Prisons: Liu Zaifu and Gao Xingjian on Chinese Literature in the 1990s." Asian and African Studies 5, 1 (1996): 98-112.

-----. "Personal Freedom in Twentieth Century China: Reclaiming the Self in Yang Lian's Yi and Gao Xingjian's Lingshan." In Mabel Lee and Michael Wilding eds., History, Literature and Society: Essays in Honour of S. N. Mukherjee. Sydney: Sydney Association for Studies in Culture and Society, 1997, 133-55.

-----. "Gao Xingjian's Lingshan/Soul Mountain: Modernism and the Chinese Writer." HEAT 4 (1997): 128-143.

-----. "Gao Xingjian on the Issue of Literary Creation for the Modern Writer." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 9.1-2 (1999). Rpt. in Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 21-41.

-----. "Pronouns as Protagonists: Gao Xingjian's Lingshan as Autobiography." China Studies 5 (1999). Rpt. in Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 235-56.

-----. "Nobel Laureate 2000 Gao Xingjian and his Novel Soul Mountain." Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal 2, 3 (2000).

-----. "Nobel in Literature 2000: Gao Xingjian’s Aesthetics of Fleeing." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 3, 1 (March 2003).

-----. "Gao Xingjian: First Chinese Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature." Persimmon 2, 1 (2001): 38-40. [with an excerpt from Soul Mountain]

-----. "Returning to Recluse Literature: Gao Xingjian." In Joshua Mostow, ed, and Kirk A. Denton, China section, ed., Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literatures. NY: Columbia UP, 2003, 610-16.

-----. "Contextualizing Gao Xingjian's Film Silhouette / Shadow." MCLC Resource Center Publication (January 2008).

Lin, Sylvia Li-chun. "Between the Individual and the Collective: Gao Xingjian's Fiction." World Literature Today (Winter 2001): 20-30.

Liu Zaifu. "Afterword To One Man's Bible." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14, 2 (Fall 2002): 237-242.

Loden, Torbjorn, "World Literature with Chinese Characteristics: On a Novel by Gao Xingjian." The Stockholm Journal of East Asian Studies 4 (1993): 17-39. Rpt. in Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 257-76.

Lovell, Julia. "Gao Xingjian, the Nobel Prize, and Chinese Intellectuals: Notes on the Aftermath of the Nobel Prize 2000." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14, 2 (Fall 2002): 1-50.

Ma, Sen. "The Theater of the Absurd in Mainland China: Kao Hsing-chien's The Bus Stop. In Bih-jaw Lin, ed., Post-Mao Sociopolitical Changes in Mainland China: The Literary Perspective. Taibei: Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, 1991, 139-48. Rpt. in Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 77-88.

Millichap, John. "Gao Xingjian at Alisan Fine Arts" (review). Asian Art News 8, 5 (Sept/Oct 1998): 83.

Moran, Thomas. "Lost in the Woods: Nature in Soul Mountain." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14, 2 (Fall 2002): 207-236.

Nobel Laureate, Swedish Sinologist Speak (Video files of talks given in Mandarin at City University HK, Jan. 31, 2001).

Quah, Sy Ren. Gao Xingjian and China's Alternative Theatre of the 1980s. M. Phil. Thesis. Cambridge: U of Cambridge, 1997.

-----. The Theatre of Gao Xingjian: Experimentation Within the Chinese Context and Towards New Modes of Representation. Ph.D. thesis. Cambridge University, 1999.

-----. "Searching for Alternative Aesthetics in the Chinese Theatre: The Odyssey of Huang Zuolin and Gao Xingjian." Asian Culture 24 (June 2000): 44-66.

-----. "Space and Suppositionality in Gao Xingjian's Theatre." In Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 157-99.

-----. "Perfomance in Alienated Voices: Mode of Narrative in Gao Xingjian's Theater." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14, 2 (Fall 2002): 51-98.

-----. Gao Xingjian and Transultural Chinese Theater. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

Riley, Josephine, and Michael Gissenwehrer. "The Myth of Gao Xingjian." In Riley and Else Unterrieder, eds., Haishi Zou Hao: Chinese Poetry, Drama and Literature of the 1980s. Bonn: Engelhard-Ng Verlag, 1989, 129-51. Rpt. in Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 111-32.

Rojas, Carlos. "Without [Femin]ism: Femininity as Axis of Alterity and Desire in Gao Xingjian's One Man's Bible." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14, 2 (Fall 2002): 163-206.

-----. "Gao Xingjian and Maternal Photographs." In Rojas, The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008, 213-43.

Roubicek, Bruno. "Introduction to Wild Man: A Contemporary Chinese Spoken Drama." Asian Theatre Journal 7, 2 (1990): 184-90.

Shepherd, Eric. "The Reaction in China." Persimmon 2, 1 (2001): 44-45. [fall 2001 reaction to Gao winning the Nobel prize]

Shih, Chong-wen. "Interview with Gao Xingjian." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 36, 3 (2001): 1-10.

Lorrain, Fiona Sze, ed. Silhouette/Shadow: The Cinematic Art of Gao Xingjian. Paris: Contours, 2007.

[this book will contain new and translated essays written by the 2000 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, Gao Xingjian and his film collaborators, Alain Melka and Jean-Louis Darmyn, all addressing their film completed in 2005, Silhouette/Shadow (La Silhouette sinon l'ombre). With a preface written by the editor Fiona Sze-Lorrain, this book is the first documentation that focuses exclusively on Gao Xingjian's artistic expression in the film world.]

-----. "'Cinema, Too, Is Literature': Conversing with Gao Xingjian." MCLC Resource Center (March 2008).

Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001.

-----. "Language as Subjectivity in One Man's Bible." In Tam, ed., Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 293-310.

-----. "Introduction: Gao Xingjian, the Nobel Prize and the Politics of Recognition." In Tam, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 1-20.

-----. "Drama of Paradox: Waiting as Form and Motif in The Bus-Stop and Waiting for Godot." In Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 43-66. Previously published as "Drama of Dilemma: Waiting as Form and Motif in Waiting for Godot and The Bus-stop." In Yun-tong Luk, ed. Studies in Chinese-Western Comparative Drama. HK: The Chinese University Press, 1990, 23-45.

-----. "Gao Xingjian and the Asian Experimentation in Postmodernist Performance." Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 201-12.

Tay, William. "Avant-garde Theater in Post-Mao China: The Bus-Stop." In Goldblatt, ed. Worlds Apart: Recent Chinese Writing and its Audiences. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 111-19. Rpt. in Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 67-76.

Weschler, Bert. "Review of Between Life and Death." By Gao Xingjian. Asian American Theater Review. NY: Yangtse Repertory Theater of America, Feb. 1997.

Xu, Gang Gary. "My Writing, Your Pain, and Her Trauma: Pronouns and (Gendered) Subjectivity in Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14, 2 (Fall 2002): 99-129.

Xu Guroong, ed. Gao Xingjian xiju yanjiu (Studies on Gao Xingjian's plays). Beijing: Zhongguo xiju, 1989.

Yan, Haiping. "Gao Xingjian's Drama." World Literature Today (Winter 2001).

-----. Yeung, Jessica. Ink Dances in Limbo: Gao Xingjian's Writing As Cultural Translation. HK: Hong Kong UP, 2009.

[Abstract: In this pioneering study of the entire written works of Gao Xingjian, China's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jessica Yeung analyses each group of his writing and argues for a reading of Gao's writing as a phenomenon of 'cultural translation': his adoption of Modernism in the 1980s is a translation of the European literary paradigm; and his attempt at postmodernist writing in the 1990s and 2000s is the effect of an exilic nihilism expressive of a diasporic subjectivity struggling to translate himself into his host culture. Thus Dr Yeung looks at Gao's works from a double perspective: in terms of their relevance both to China and to the West. Avoiding the common polarized approaches to Gao's works, her dual approach means that she neither extolls them as the most brilliant works of contemporary Chinese literature eligible for elevation to the metaphysical level, nor dismisses them as nothing more than elitist and misogynist mediocre writings; rather she sees this important body of work in a more nuanced way.This book is suitable for all readers who are interested in contemporary Chinese culture and literature. It is particularly valuable to students who are keen to engage with the issue of contemporary China-West cultural relationships.]

Yeung, Wai Yee. From China to Nowhere -- The Writings of Gao Xingjian in the 1980s and Early 1990s. MPhil thesis. HK: The University of Hong Kong, 1996.

Yip, Terry Siu-Han and Kwok-kan Tam. "Gender and Self in Gao Xingjian's Three Post-Exile Plays." In Tam, Kwok-kan, ed. Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian. HK: Chinese University Press, 2001, 215-33.

Zhao, Henry Y.H. Towards a Modern Zen Theatre: Gao Xingjian and Chinese Theatre Experimentalism. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 2000.

Zhao Yiheng (Henry). "Jianli yizhong xiandai chanju" (Establish a modern Zen theater). Jinri xuanfeng 7.

Zou, Jiping. Gao Xingjian and Chinese Experimental Theatre. Ph.D. diss. Urbana: U of Illinois, 1994.


Ge Fei
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Wang, Jing. "The Mirage of Chinese 'Postmodernism': Ge Fei, Self-Positioning, and the Avant-garde Showcase." Positions 1, 2 (1993): 349-88.

Zhang, Xudong. "Fable of Self-Consciousness: Ge Fei and Some Motifs in Meta-Fiction." In Zhang, Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms. Durham: Duke UP, 1997, 163-200.


Gong Liu
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Gu Cheng
Brady, Anne-Marie. "Dead in Exile: The Life and Death of Gu Cheng and Xie Ye." China Information 11, 4 (Spring 1997): 126-48.

Galik, Marian. "Gu Cheng's Novel Ying'er and the Bible." Asian and African Studies 5, 1 (1996).

Huang, Yibing. “The Ghost Enters the City: Gu Cheng’s Metamorphosis in the ‘New World.’” In Christopher Lupke ed., New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 123-143.

Kubin, Wolfgang. "Gu Cheng: Peking, Ich." In Findeison and Gassmann, eds., Autumn Floods: Essay in Honour of Marian Galik. Bern: Peter Lang, 1997, 415-30.

Li, Xia. "'Nameless Flowers': The Role of Nature in Gu Cheng's Poetry and in His Narrative Prose Ying'er." In Findeison and Gassmann, eds., Autumn Floods: Essays in Honour of Marian Galik. Bern: Peter Lang, 1997, 431-46.

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-----. "Annihilation of the Self in Exile: Gu Cheng's Ying'er (1993)." Interlitterraria (Tartu, Estonia) 3 (1998): 200-215.

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Nielsen, Inge. The Changing Phases of Gu Cheng's Poetry, 1964-1993. Diss. Durham, England: University of Durham, 1997.

Patton, Simon. "Desire and Masculinity at the Margins in Gu Cheng’s Ying’er." In Kam Louie and Morris Low, eds., Asian Masculinities: The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan. NY, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

-----. "Premonition in Poetry: Elements of Gu Cheng's Menglong Aesthetic." Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 22-23 (1990-91): 133-45.

-----. "The Unbearable Heaviness of Being: Gender, Sexuality and Insanity in Gu Cheng and Xie Ye's Ying'er." Modern Chinese Literature 9 (1996): 399-415.

-----. "Notes Toward a Nomad Subjectivity: The Poetics of Gu Cheng (1956-1993)." Social Semiotics 9, 1 (1999): 49-66.

Patton, Simon. "The Forces of Production: Symmetry and the Imagination in the Early Poetry of Gu Cheng." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 13, 2 (Fall 2001): 134-71.

Trappl, Richard. “’Modernism’ and Foreign Influences on Chinese Poetry: Exemplified by the Early Guo Moruo and Gu Cheng.” In Marian Galik, ed., Interliterary and Intraliterary Aspects of the May Fourth Movement 1919 in China. Bratislava: Veda, 1990, 83-92.


Gu Hongming
Arkush, David. "Ku Hung-ming (1857-1928)." Papers on China 19 (1965): 194-238.

Hao, Tianhu. "Ku Hung-ming, an Early Chinese Reader of Milton." Milton Quarterly 39, 2 (May 2005): 93-100.

Lo, Hui-min. "Ku Hung-ming: Schooling" East Asian History 38 (Sept. 88): 45-64.

-----. "Ku Hung-ming: Homecoming." East Asian History 6 (Dec. 1993): 163-82.

-----. "Ku Hung-ming: Homecoming, part 2." East Asian History 9 (June 1995): 67-96.


Gu Hua
Van Der Meer, Marc. "'Hibiscus,' 'The Garden of the Literati,' and Mao Zedong's Biography: A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Writer Gu Hua." China Information 7, 2 (1998): 20-29.


Gu Jiegang
Lee, Haiyan. "Tears That Crumbled the Great Wall: The Archaeology of Feeling in the May Fourth Folklore Movement." The Journal of Asian Studies 64, 1 (Feb. 2005): 35-65. [Deals chiefly with Gu Jiegang's study of the Meng Jiang Nu legend and briefly with Guo Moruo's translation of ancient poetry] [download from AAS website]

Schneider, Lawrence. Ku Chieh-kang and China's New History: Nationalism and the Quest for Alternative Traditions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.


Guo Moruo
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Chen, Xiaoming. From the May Fourth Movement to the Communist Revolution: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Path to Communism. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2007.

Doar, Bruce. "Images of Women in the Dramas of Guo Moruo: The Case of Empress Wu." In C. Tung and C. Mackerras, eds., Drama in the People's Republic of China. Albany: SUNY Press, 1987, 254-92.

Dolezelova-Velingerova, Milena. "Kuo Mo-jo's Autobiographical Works." In Jaroslav Prusek, ed., Studies in Modern Chinese Literature. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1964, 45-75.

Galik, Marian. "Kuo Mo-jo's The Goddesses: Creative Confrontation with Tagore, Whitman and Goethe." In Galik, ed., Milestones in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation (1898-1979). Weisbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1986, 43-72.

-----. "Kuo Mo-jo and his Development from Aesthetico-impressionist to Proletarian Criticism." In Galik, The Genesis of Modern Chinese Literary Criticism, 1917-1930. London: Curzon Press, 1980, 28-62.

Lee, Haiyan. "Tears That Crumbled the Great Wall: The Archaeology of Feeling in the May Fourth Folklore Movement." The Journal of Asian Studies 64, 1 (Feb. 2005): 35-65. [Deals chiefly with Gu Jiegang's study of the Meng Jiang Nu legend and briefly with Guo Moruo's translation of ancient poetry] [download from AAS website]

Liu, Ruoqiang. "Whitman's Soul in China: Guo Moruo's Poetry in the New Culture Movement." In Ed Folson ed., Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002, 172-86.

Mi, Jiayan. Self-Fashioning and Reflexive Modernity in Modern Chinese Poetry. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2004.

[Abstract: This study explores diverse modes of self-fashioning in the discursive formation of Chinese modernity between 1919 and 1949 in modern Chinese poetry. By focusing on four representative poets of modern Chinese poetry before 1949—Guo Moruo, Li Jinfa, Dai Wangshu, and Mu Dan, the study offers fresh, insightful analysis of the dynamic trajectory of the historical complexity of fashioning a new modern self-subjectivity with relation to the nation-state. Theoretically informed by the varied perspectives of modernity, the self, the body, and memory, the author for the first time reveals how the corporeal body emerges as a site of agency, trauma, and libidinal investment for engaging with the configuration of a multi-layered self, gender, and nationhood in modern China. This work will make several significant contributions to enhancing readers’ understanding of the cultural and psychological complexity of modern China. This work will be of interest to teachers, students and scholars of modern Chinese literature and culture as well as comparative literature.]

Ou, Hong. "Pantheistic Ideas in Guo Moruo's The Goddesses and Whitman's Leaves of Grass." In Ed Folson ed., Whitman East & West : new contexts for reading Walt Whitman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002, 187-96.

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Roy, David T. Kuo Mojo: The Early Years. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Shih, Shu-mei. "Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism: The Work of Guo Moruo." In Shi, The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937. Berkeley: UC Press, 2001, 96-109.

Trappl, Richard. “’Modernism’ and Foreign Influences on Chinese Poetry: Exemplified by the Early Guo Moruo and Gu Cheng.” In Marian Galik, ed., Interliterary and Intraliterary Aspects of the May Fourth Movement 1919 in China. Bratislava: Veda, 1990, 83-92.

Tsang, Winnie. "Kuo Mojo's The Goddesses." Journal of Oriental Studies 12 (1977): 97-109.

Tsu, Jing. "Perversions of Masculinity: The Masochistic Male Subject in Yu Dafu, Guo Moruo, and Freud." Positions 8, 2 (Fall 2000): 269-316.

Wagner, Rudolf. The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama. Berkeley: UCP, 1990, 246-50. 282-89. [deals with "Cai Wenji" and "Wu Zetian"]

Yip, Terry Siu-Han, and Kwok-Kan Tan. "European Influence on Modern Chinese Drama: Kuo Mo-jo's Early Historical-Problem Plays." Journal of Oriental Studies 24, 1 (1986): 54-65.

Zheng, Yi. "The Figuration of the Sublime: Guo Moruo's Qu Yuan." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 16, 1 (Spring 2004): 153-98.

Guo Shixing
Conceison, Claire. "The Occidental Other on the Chinese Stage: Cutlural Cross-Examination in Guo Shixing's Bird Man." Asian Theatre Journal 15, 1 (Spring 1998): 87-100.