1. General Introduction
2. Literary Modernity in Perspective / Yingjin Zhang
3. Late Qing Literature, 1890s-1910s / Zhang Longxi
4. War, Revolution, and Urban Transformations: Chinese Literature of the Republican Era, 1920s-1940s / Hu Ying
5. Socialist Literature Driven by Radical Modernity, 1950-1980 / Nicole Huang
6. Thirty Years of New Era Literature: From Elitization to De-Elitization / Chen Xiaoming
7. Building a Modern Institution of Literature: The Case of Taiwan / Tao Dongfeng
8. Sinophone Literature / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
9. Modern Poetry in Chinese: Challenges and Contingencies / Ping-hui Liao
10. Modern Chinese Theater Study and its Century-Long History / Michelle Yeh
11. Literariness (Wen) and Character (Zhi): From Baihua to Yuluti and Dazhongyu / Xiaomei Chen
12. Fiction in Modern China: Modernity through Storytelling / Qian Suoqiao
13. Modern China's Translated Literature / Yiyan Wang
14. Writing Chinese Feminism(s) / Zha Mingjian
15. World of Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction: From Shanghai Express to Rivers and Lakes of Knights-Errant / Amy Dooling
16. Ethnic Minority Literature / Yi Zheng
17. Use in Uselessness: How Western Aesthetics Made Chinese Literature More Political / Mark Bender
18. Linguistic Turns and Literary Fields in Twentieth-Century China / Ban Wang
19. Significance of the Northeastern Writers in Exile, 1931-1945 / Jianhua Chen
20. Writing Cities / Haili Kong
21. Divided Unities of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture: The Modern Girl, Woodcuts, and Contemporary Painter-Poets / Weijie Song
22. All the Literature That's Fit to Print: A Print Culture Perspective on Modern Chinese Literature / Paul Manfredi
23. Proliferating Genre: Web-Based Time-Travel Fiction and the New Media in Contemporary China / Nicolai Volland
24. Persistence of Form: Nation, Literary Movement, and the Fiction of Ng Kim Chew / Jin Feng
25. Modern Girl in Modern Chinese Literature / Carlos Rojas
26. Body as Phenomenon: A Brief Survey of Secondary Literature of the Body in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture / Tze-lan D. Sang
27. Post-Maoist Politics of Memory / Ari Larissa Heinrich
28. Writing Historical Traumas in the Everyday / Yomi Braester
29. Brief Overview of Chinese-Language Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature / Lingchei Letty Chen
30. Toward a Typology of Literary Modernity in China: A Survey of English Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature / Chen Sihe.