pt. 1. Late Qing ideas
China as origin
Appropriations: another look at Yan Fu and western ideas
New ways of writing
New theories of the novel
pt. 2. Late Qing novels
Wu Jianren: engaging the world
Melding East and West: Wu Jianren's New story of the stone
Impossible representations: visions of China and the West in Flower in a sea of retribution.
pt. 3. The new republic
The contest over universal values
Swimming against the tide: the Shanghai of Zhu Shouju
Lu Xun and the crisis of figuration.