Revolution of the Heart

An engagingly written critical genealogy of "love" in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. Haiyan Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. Alexander des Forges: "Revolution of the Heart begins weeping, in the late Qing, and ends wailing, roughly a century later. In the pages between, Haiyan Lee makes a powerful argument for the centrality of feeling—especially romantic love—to the imagination of the nation, reform, and revolution in twentieth-century China." Yung-chen Chiang: "Haiyan Lee should be congratulated for producing a genealogy of love that is replete with keen insights and observations. Her postmodernist and poststructuralist readings of the text are perceptive and incisive. Lee's book is a testimony of how postmodernist and poststructuralist approaches, when employed judiciously and grounded empirically, can enrich our understanding of history." The China Journal: "[A]n exceptionally well-re

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