The River Fans Out: Literature and Its Theories in China (2020)Paperback - 2020, 8 October 2021

Part 1: Semio-Narratology.- Chapter 1. Redefining Signs/Symbol and Semiotics.- Chapter 2. The Fate of Semiotics in China.- Chapter 3. The Problem of Time in a General Narratology.- Chapter 4. The Narrator and His/Her/Its Duality.- Chapter 5. Middle Reclining: The Repositioning of Cultural Markedness.- Part 2: Traditional Chinese Literature.- Chapter 6. Subculture as Moral Paradox: A Study of the Texts of the White Rabbit Plays.- Chapter 7. Historiography and Fiction in Chinese Culture.- Chapter 8. Chinese Fiction and Its Narrator.- Chapter 9. The Cultural Status of Chinese Fiction. Chapter 10. The Second Tide: Chinese Influence on American Poetry Today.- Part 3: Recent Chinese Literature.- Chapter 11. The Rise of Metafiction in China.- Chapter 12. Pure Poetry, Impure Criticism, and the Power of Academia.- Chapter 13. Post-isms and Chinese New Conservatism.- Chapter 14. Fiction as Subversion: Yu Hua.- Chapter 15. Ma Yuan, the Chinese Fabricator.- Chapter 16. A Fearful Asymmetry: Novel of the Future in 20th Century China.- Chapter 17. Poetics of Death.- Chapter 18. River Fans Out Chinese Fiction Since the Late 1970s.- Chapter 19. The New Waves in Recent Chinese Fiction.