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Absolute Spirit, 21 , 292 n38
Absurdity, 33 , 35 , 42 , 169 -70
Academy of Chinese Culture, 40 , 49 -50, 70
A Cheng, 166 , 180 -81, 214 , 218 , 241 , 329 n47
and Cultural Revolution, 219 , 331 n69
and subjectivity, 173 , 174 , 215 , 216
and tradition vs. modernity, 182 -83, 185 -86
See also Root-searching literature
Adorno, Theodor, 76 , 77 , 105 , 106 , 302 n63, 326 n19
Aesthetic modernity, 4 , 42 -48, 137 -48, 177 -94
and alternative modern, 46 -47, 297 n15
and Cultural Revolution, 137 , 313 n19
and formalism, 144 -48, 313 -14n19
and ideology, 141 -44
and linguistic-representative rupture, 177 -80, 183
and May Fourth Movement, 48 , 298 n16
and modernization, 42 , 43 , 45 , 192 , 315 -16n33
and Mo Yan, 46 , 166 , 171 , 181 , 186 -89
and nationalism, 147 -48
and nihilism, 137 -38
1930s, 193
and play, 44 -45
and postmodernism, 233 , 252
and rationality, 42 -44
and stream of consciousness, 147 , 189 , 322 -23n153
and subjectivity, 42 , 160 , 172 -74
and utopianism, 42 , 143 , 159
and Wang Meng, 46 , 167 , 170 , 181 , 186 , 189 -92
See also Experimental fiction; Language fever; Modern consciousness; Pseudomodernism debate; Root-searching literature; Xiandai pai
Ah, Human Beings! Human Beings! (Ren a ren ) (Dai), 10 , 32
"Air Stewardess" ("Kongzhong xiaojie") (Wang), 282 , 341 n43
Alienation: economic, 12 , 14 , 16 -17, 291 n20
Marx on, 10 , 12 , 13 , 24 , 289 n4, 290 n8
political, 12 , 16 , 291 n26
and postmodernism, 239 , 335 n9
and post-new-era, 285 -86
of thought, 12 , 19
See also Socialist alienation
Alitto, Guy, 238
Alternative modern, 46 -47, 64 , 73 , 90 , 235 , 297 n15, 305 n99, 334 n3
See also Cultural subject; Greater China; Greater East Asia
Althusser, Louis, 58 , 203 , 324 n2
Anarchism, 13 -14, 233
Anderson, Perry, 105
Antihumanism, 26 , 29 , 77 , 184
and experimental fiction, 184 , 199 , 202
and pseudomodernism debate, 165 -67
and Wang Shuo phenomenon, 276 -77
Anti-imperialism, 1 , 288 n7
Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign, 11 , 15 , 19 , 25 , 202
Anxiety consciousness. See Crisis consciousness
Aspirations (Kewang ), 266
At Middle Age (Rendao zhongnian ) (Shen), 34 , 114 , 296 n76
Avant-garde fiction (xianfeng xiaoshuo ), 176 , 200 -201, 242 , 245 , 246
See also Experimental fiction