Zhang Yiwu is a Professor and PhD supervisor at Peking University's
Chinese Language and Literature Department, and Deputy Head of the
Peking University Cultural Resources Research Center. He specializes in
teaching and research in Chinese contemporary literature, mass culture
and critical theory. Since the 1990s, Zhang has engaged in a series of
pioneering research examining the "relationship between globalization
and China's contemporary mass culture", offering insightful
interpretations of current cultural phenomena in Chinese society during
this transitional phase. His main works are: Searching at the Margins,
The Big Turn, From Modernity to Post-modernity, Images of "New New
China", and Globalization and Chinese Film in Transition. He also
compiled Cultural Development History during Thirty Years of China's
Reform and Opening-up.
Table of Contents
21st Century Chinese Literature -- Points of Departure Small Stories in a Great Epoch A Contract Marriage Ballad for Adeline Plain Soup with Greens There's No Waiting for Some People Jade Streetlights A Flash of Illumination Shades of Autumn on All the Trees Living Together After the Divorce Editor's Recommended Reading (in Chinese)
