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.