Preface and Acknowledgments .................................... ix
Notes on the Text ............................................ xvii
One
The Dance of a Nissan ........................................... i
Part one. The Beihai Story
Two
Characters of the Story ........................................ 19
What Is a Character? ........................................... 21
Who Is in the Story? ........................................... 26
The (Holy) Trinity of Characters: Chuzhang, Laoban, and
Xiaojie ........................................................ 30
Three
A Theater of Desires ........................................... 51
Office of the General Manager .................................. 51
Banquet of Turtles ............................................. 56
Singing in the Karaoke Bar ..................................... 59
"Invisible Hands" and the Massage Parlor ....................... 63
Four
A Grammatology of Pleasure ..................................... 73
The Narrative Nature of Human Experience ....................... 73
Morphology of the Beihai Folktale .............................. 87
Part two. The Question of the We
Five
The Structure of the Self ..................................... 109
"Sources of the Self" no Becoming Other ....................... 128
Six
Time, Narrative, and History .................................. 115
Time in and of the Past ....................................... 138
Time of the Maoist Revolution ................................. 144
Time after Revolution ......................................... 151
The Today-ness of Today ....................................... 161
Seven
The Being of Becoming ......................................... 165
"Being and Nothingness" ....................................... 165
Subject, Subject Position, and Subjectivity ................... 172
Conclusion: Memories of the Future ............................ 179
Notes ......................................................... 185
References .................................................... 209
Index ......................................................... 221
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