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Farquhar, Mary L. Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong. Sharpe, 1999. A history of the vast, yet neglected, field of modern Chinese children's literature.

Hsia, Chih-Tsing. A History of Modern Chinese Fiction. 3rd ed. Indiana University Press, 1999. This remains the most authoritative study of 20th-century Chinese fiction today.

Lau, Joseph S. M., and Howard Goldblatt, eds. The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature. Columbia University Press, 1995. Comprehensive collection of representative works in all major genres by 20th-century Chinese writers.

McDougall, Bonnie, and Kam Louie. The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century. Columbia University Press, 1997. A comprehensive study of the written culture of 20th-century China.

Nienhauser, Jr., William, and others, eds. The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. Indiana University Press, 1986-1998. Monumental reference work that summarizes the current state of knowledge about traditional Chinese literature.

Owen, Stephen, ed. and trans. An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. Norton, 1996. A chronological anthology of the 3,000-year tradition of Chinese literature to the end of the last dynasty.

Yang, Lan. Chinese Fiction of the Cultural Revolution. Hong Kong University, 1998. A comprehensive study of the period 1966-1976, analyzing and comparing novels with fiction of the preceding period, with Soviet fiction, and with traditional Chinese and Western fiction.

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