Providing a broad introduction to the area, this book maps the field of Chinese literature across its various worlds. Looking both within - at the world of Chinese literature, its history, linguistic, cultural, local, and regional specificities - and without - at the way Chinese Literature has circulated throughout the world.

Yingjin Zhang was Distinguished Professor of Modern Chinese Literature at the University of California, San Diego, as well as Visiting Professor of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His publications include The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature (2022), New Chinese-Language Documentaries (Routledge, 2017), and Chinese Film Stars (Routledge, 2010).

I. Overviews: Literature, History, and the Multiple Worlds

1. General Introduction

2. Modern Chinese Literary Historiography

II. Circulation and Reception of China in World Literature

3. Zeitgeist and Literature: The Reception of Chinese Literature in Germany until the First Half of the Twentieth Century

4. Paris and the Art of Transposition, 1920s-1940s

5. Line, Loop, Constellation: Classical Chinese Poetry between Sinophone and Anglophone Worlds

6. A Decade Apart: Bridging the US and China Literary Systems, 2010-2021

III. Worlding Chinese Literature Across the Globe

7. Chinese Literature at Large: Wong Chin Foo's Border-Crossing Writing

8. Engaging the World in Republican Literature

9. The Rise of Author Museums in the PRC: How Institutions Make World Literature

IV. Sinophone Worlds of Borderlands, Urban Jungles, and Rainforests

10. Yi Literature: Traditional and Contemporary

11. Queer Sinophone Literature in Hong Kong: The Politics of Worldliness

12. Taiwanese Literature in the Early Twenty-First Century

13. Of Other (Chinese) Spaces: Sinophone Literature and the Rainforest

V. Comparative Worlds of Literary Genres

14. Modern Chinese Drama Across Media and Worlds: Centered on the Case of the White Snake

15. Reportage and the Forms of Nonfiction Art in China

16. Reading World Literature in Chinese Science Fiction

17. Ecological Critique as World Literature: Alienation of Nature and Humans in Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide

VI. Translingual Worlds of Writers and Scholars

18. Su Manshu's "Broken Hairpin": A Romantic Tragedy in the Hard Times

19. Qian Zhongshu as a Cosmopolitan

20. Zhang Ailing and the Cold War Cultural Geography

21. Worlding Jin Yong's Martial Arts (Wuxia) Narrative in Three Keys

22. Yan Lianke's Heterotopic Imaginaries

VII. New Worlds of Gender Configurations

23. Modern Intellectual Masculinities in Transformation

24. Nora in China

25. Reading Women: Rethinking a Trope in the Socialist Modern and Beyond

26. Feminine Neorealist Fiction in the New Millennium: Voice, Trauma, and Focalization in Fang Fang's Fiction

VIII. Changing Worlds of Translation and Transmediation

27. Frame Tales: Reading the 1,001 Nights in Early Twentieth-Century China

28. Figuring Time: Lyricism in Contemporary Chinese Poetic Films

29. Performance and Performativity in Modern China

30. Chinese Internet Fictions in the Transmedia World

Index