This wide-ranging and theoretically rich book examines how a diverse set of Chinese intellectuals carved out in-between spaces beyond the poles of competing ideologies for greater openness, multiplicity, and pluralism.

Jianmei Liu is chair professor of Chinese literature at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature (2016) and Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (2003).