Select Publications
By Dr Keru Cai
Books
, 2025, Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism, Oxford University PressOxford, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198947080.001.0001
, 2025, Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism From Russia, with Squalor
Book Chapters
, 2025, 'Conclusion', in Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism, Oxford University PressOxford, pp. 203 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198947080.003.0006
, 2025, 'Hard Times', in Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism, Oxford University PressOxford, pp. 117 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198947080.003.0004
, 2025, 'Introduction', in Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism, Oxford University PressOxford, pp. 1 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198947080.003.0001
, 2025, 'Manual Labor and Manuscript', in Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism, Oxford University PressOxford, pp. 70 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198947080.003.0003
, 2025, 'Spatial Metonymy', in Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism, Oxford University PressOxford, pp. 158 - 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198947080.003.0005
, 2025, 'Textual Poverty and National Backwardness', in Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism, Oxford University PressOxford, pp. 35 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198947080.003.0002
, 2025, 'Lu Xun's Russian Intertexts and the Dialectics of Optimism and Pessimism', in Lu Xun and World Literature, Hong Kong University Press
Journal articles
, 2024, 'Lu Xun’s Heteromodal Realism', Modern Language Quarterly, 85, pp. 253 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-11196151
, 2023, 'The Spatiality of Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism', Comparative Literature, 75, pp. 327 - 347, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475445
, 2022, 'The Proximity Effect: Agency and Isolation in Eileen Chang's "Love in a Fallen City"', Concentric Literary and Cultural Studies, 48, pp. 59 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.6240/concentric.lit.202203_48(1).0003
, 2022, 'Maxim Gorky in china: 1920s Commentary and Shen Congwen’s "Three Men and One Woman"', CLEAR: Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, and Reviews
, 2020, 'Looking, reading, and intertextuality in Ding Ling’s “shafei nüshi de riji” 莎菲女士的日記 (miss sophia’s diary)', Prism, 17, pp. 298 - 325, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8690404
, 2020, 'The Temporality of Poverty: Realism in Lao She's Camel Xiangzi', Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 32, pp. 1 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mclc.2020.0003
Other
, 2025, Preface: Four Interventions, Oxford University PressOxford, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198947080.002.0006