China -- Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism, and Oppositional Politics: Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction by Lu Tonglin

Lu Tonglin. Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism, and Oppositional Politics: Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction. Stanford, Ca. Stanford University Press. 1995. x + 235 pages. $39.50 ($14.95 paper). ISBN 0-8047-2463-6.

Experimental fiction, a literary trend which has prevailed since the late 1980s in China, is the subject of Lu Tonglin's monograph. The six authors studied here are Lu Xun, Mo Yan, Zhaxi Dawa, Su Tong, Yu Hua, and Can Xue, the only female writer of the group. All are contemporary, with the exception of Lu Xun (1881-1936), who is considered important because of his influence on later writers. What is interesting about Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism, and Oppositional Politics is the author's apparent emphasis on Chinese fiction in order to reveal her main concerns on political,...