CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction: Inventing the “Lyrical Tradition”
PART ONE
Chapter One
“A History with Feeling”
Chapter Two
The Three Epiphanies of Shen Congwen
Chapter Three
Of Dream and Snake: He Qifang, Feng Zhi, and Born-Again Lyricism
Chapter Four
A Lyricism of Betrayal: The Enigma of Hu Lancheng
PART TWO
Chapter Five
The Lyrical in Epic Time: The Music and Poetry of Jiang Wenye
Chapter Six
The Riddle of the Sphinx: Lin Fengmian and the Polemics of Realism in Modern Chinese Painting
Chapter Seven
A Spring That Brought Eternal Regret: Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Poetics of Screening China
Chapter Eight
And History Took a Calligraphic Turn: Tai Jingnong and the Art of Writing
Coda: Toward a Critical Lyricism
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Bibliography
Index