摘要
<正>Contending for the"ChineseMo Modern"is a welcome addition to the growing publications on modern Chinese fiction in English.In a way,it is a long-awaited book because,for one,no comprehensive book-length work on Chinese fiction in the critical period of 1937-1949,to the best of my knowledge,has been published in English;and more importantly,current discussion of modern Chinese fiction in English is dominated by what I would call"redemptive modern"discourses that try to write