Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

Acknowledgments

pp.：  9 – 10

Introduction

pp.：  11 – 22

Chapter One Bildungsroman/Chengzhang Xiaoshuo as a Literary Genre

pp.：  23 – 42

Chapter Two The Changing Patterns of the Bildungsroman in Modern Chinese Literature

pp.：  43 – 84

Antecedents of the Bildungsroman: Zhuan in Pre-modern Chinese Literature

pp.：  44 – 48

Bildungsroman in Modern Chinese Literature

pp.：  49 – 84

Chapter Three Fallen Youth: A Solitary Outcast

pp.：  85 – 140

Coming of Age in the Toon Street Series

pp.：  104 – 111

Role Models and Peer Community

pp.：  112 – 119

A Failed Catcher in the Rye

pp.：  120 – 123

Sexuality, Violence and Death

pp.：  124 – 129

A Solitary Hero on the Street

pp.：  130 – 131

The Boat to Redemption

pp.：  132 – 140

Chapter Four Fallen Youth: A Trembling Loner

pp.：  141 – 196

A Degenerating and Helpless Parental Milieu

pp.：  168 – 177

Guanglin’s Self-sufficient Peer Community

pp.：  178 – 182

Sexuality

pp.：  183 – 184

Time and Death—the End of Adolescence

pp.：  185 – 189

After Cries in the Drizzle

pp.：  190 – 196

Chapter Five Tragic and Parodistic Bildungsroman

pp.：  197 – 216

Farewell to Revolution

pp.：  198 – 204

Unfulfilled Bildung

pp.：  205 – 216

Glossary

pp.：  217 – 224

Bibliography

pp.：  225 – 234

Index

pp.：  235 – 238