Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tradition and Hybridity in Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying -- 3 Wartime Literature between Tradition and Modernity -- 4 Boundaries of the Real in Xu Xu's Fiction -- 5 Wumingshi and the Wartime Romances -- 6 Opposition, Imitation, Adaptation and Diffusion in Popular Chinese Literature -- Bibliography -- Index