Lorenzo Andolfatto's Hundred Days' Literature explores the literary landscape of late imperial China via the notion of utopia, offering a critical itinerary that moves from Liang Qichao's fictional experiments to Wu Jianren's modern retelling of the Story of the Stone.

Lorenzo Andolfatto, Ph.D. (2015) is a research fellow at Heidelberg University's Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context," where he pursues research in modern Chinese and comparative literature. He is also a translator of Chinese fiction.