Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945 Book

	Preface
	General Introduction	1
1	Preface to Poems from the Hut in the Human World	69
2	Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation	71
3	On the Relationship Between Fiction and the Government of the People	74
4	Preface to Oliver Twist	82
5	Preface to Part One of David Copperfield	84
6	Miscellaneous Notes on Literature (excerpts)	87
7	Incidental Remarks on Literature	90
8	On the Power of Mara Poetry	96
9	Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature	123
10	On Literary Revolution	140
11	Nightmare	146
12	Humane Literature	151
13	On the Literary Arts (excerpts)	162
14	Art and Life	169
15	Replacing Religion with Aesthetic Education	182
16	Literature and Life	190
17	On Photography	196
18	Preface to The Sorrows of Young Werther	204
19	Fusing with Nature	213
20	A Critique of the New Culturists	218
21	Women and Literature	228
22	On "Literary Criticism"	233
23	My Opinions on Creativity	235
24	Preface to Call to Arms	238
25	Remarks on the Publication of Saturday	243
26	Congratulations to Happy Magazine	245
27	The Mission of the New Literature	247
28	Class Struggle in Literature	263
29	From a Literary Revolution to a Revolutionary Literature	269
30	The Bygone Age of Ah Q	276
31	On Reading Ni Huanzhi	289
32	Literature and Revolution	307
33	Dai Wangshu's Poetic Theory	316
34	Form in Poetry	318
35	The Divergence of Art and Politics	328
36	Thoughts on Realism	335
37	Realism: A "Correction"	345
38	Do Not Encroach Upon Literary Art	363
39	Regarding the Literary News and Hu Qiuyuan's Literary Arguments	367
40	Freedom for Literature but Not the Writer	376
41	On the "Third Category"	383
42	Preface to Public Cemetery	387
43	A Record of My Own Inspiration	390
44	Literature and Life	392
45	On National Defense Literature	409
46	What Do the Broad Masses Demand of Literature?	415
47	The Question of Popular Literature and Art	418
48	Excerpts from Mao Zedong	428
49	Literature and Art for the Masses and the Use of Traditional Forms	433
50	My Writing	436
51	On Writers	443
52	Universal or Restricted?	450
53	We Need the Zawen Essay	455
54	Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art	458
55	Realism Today	485
	Glossary	493
	Bibliography	521
	Translators	537
	Index	539