Introduction: out of the ashes: towards a wartime aesthetics of dissolution -- A sonnet in an air-raid shelter: Mu Dan and the new lyricism -- Intersections between cartoon and national art: Ye Qianyu's search for the sinicized cartoon -- Wang Zengqi's Collection of chance encounters: the shifting essence of the wartime short story -- Between forgetting and the repetitions of memory: Fei Mu's aesthetics of desolation in Spring in a small town -- Fei Ming's After Mr. Neverwas rides a plane: wartime autobiography as history -- Searching for roots: modernists echoes in the post-Mao era.
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