1 (January 1989).Ī note on format is in order here: The pinyin romanization system has been used throughout. A somewhat altered version of the second half of chapter 2 appeared as 'The Specular Self: Subjective and Mimetic Elements in the Fiction of Ye Shaojun' in the journal Modern China 15, no. Parts of chapters 2 and 4 of this book appeared as the article 'The Morality of Form: Lu Xun and the Modern Chinese Short Story' in a conference volume edited by Leo Ou-fan Lee, Lu Xun and His Legacy (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985). I am most thankful for their time and hospitality. While in China, I had the fortune to interview three of the authors whose works I discuss in chapter 4 of this book: Ai Wu, Sha Ting, and Wu Zuxiang. These include the Shanghai and Beijing municipal libraries, as well as the libraries of Fudan University, Beijing University, and Sichuan University.
I am indebted to my sponsors and to the staffs of several Chinese libraries who made their collections available to me. Research for this book was begun while I was studying at Fudan University in Shanghai from 1980 to 1982 on a grant from the Committee for Scholarly Exchange with the People's Republic of China. The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990 1990.
