Introduction Gai 改: Modernity as Change: Introductory Notes on Culture, Enlightenment Modernity, Capitalism, Complexity, Semantic Overlap
1.Shi Chang Jing Ji 市场经济: Market Economy: Modernity, Corporate Capitalism, and Chinese Literature since 1978
2. Xian Feng 先锋: Economies of Meaning: Semiotics, the Avant-Garde, And Corporate Capitalism
3. Che Dan扯蛋: The Bathos of High Literary Modernism: Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged and Performances of Literary Joking
4. Zhou 周: The Sublime Poetics of Literary Modernism: Luminous Detail and the Pursuit of Immanence in the Poetry of Mang Ke
5. Kun Nan 困难: Difficulty and Clan in Literary Modernism: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Mo Yan's Big Beasts & Wide Hips
Afterword Fei Jian Dan 非简单: The Non-Simplicities of Culture: A Concluding Note.