文学研究变得无所不包之后，它同其他学科的区分如何确立？鉴于此，在郭冰茹主编的《海外中国现代文化研究文选/苏州大学海外汉学研究丛书》文字之中，作者有意混淆文学、历史、社会、艺术等领域的研究成果。本书共有7篇文章，全面展示了文化研究在现代文学研究领域的繁荣面貌。

1．Foreign Travel Through a Woman’S Eyes：Shan Shili’S

 Guirneo I~xing ji in Local and Global Perspective

 (ELLEN WIDMER) 

2．Tears That Crumbled the Great Wal l：The Archaeology of

 Feel ing in the May Fourth Folklore Movement(HAIYAN

 LEEl

3．FrOm Teahouse to Playhouse=Theaters as Social Texts in

 Early—Twentieth—Century China(JOSHUA GOLDSTEIN)

4．Gendered Spectacles：Lu Xun on Gazing at Women and

 Other Pleasures(Eileen J．Cheng)

5．The New Woman Commits Suicide：The Press，Cultural

 Memory，and the New Republic(BRYNA GOODMAN)

6．Sorrow After the Honeymoon：The Controversy over

 Domesticity in Late Republican China(Lu Liu)

7．Away from Nanking Road：Small Stores and Neighborhood

 Life in Modern Shanghai(HANCHAO LU)

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