1. Introduction
2. Rethinking Modern Chinese Literature in a Global Context—Wang Ning
3. Articles
4. Opening the Cultural Mind: Translation and the Modern Chinese Literary Canon—Sun Yifeng
5. Lu Xun and Modernism/Postmodernism—Ming Dong Gu
6. Women and the Search for Modernity: Rethinking Modern Chinese Drama—Chengzhou He
7. New Humanism—Li Tonglu
8. Becoming-Obscure: A Constant in the Development of Modern Chinese Poetry—Chen Yongguo
9. Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectic between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction—Alexander C. Y. Huang
10. The Political Campaign as Genre: Ideology and Iconography during the Seventeen Years Period—Yomi Braester
11. Chinese Postmodernist Fiction—Douwe Fokkema
12. Popular Culture and Body Politics: Beauty Writers in Contemporary China—Sheldon H. Lu
13. Commentary
14. Reading (about) Modern Chinese Literature in a Time of Globalization—J. Hillis Miller