Download or read book The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature written by Rong Cai and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s & 1990s the crippled agent who fails to realise the humanist autonomy envisioned by post-Mao theorists remained a common subject of Chinese literature. Rong Cai studies the work of five contemporary writers & assesses the reasons for the popularity of this subject.