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CONTENTS
Introduction: Tiananmen in Diaspora and in Fiction
1. The Existentialist Square: Gao Xingjian’s Taowang
Part I. The Prize and the Polis
2. The Aporetic Square: Ha Jin’s The Crazed
Part I. The Scholar and the Student
3. The Globalized Square: Annie Wang’s Lili
Part I. Female Hooligans and Global Capital
Part II. Equivocal Transnationalism
4. The Biopolitical Square: Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma
Part I. Tiananmen Cannibals and Biopower
Part II. Reclaiming Student Life and After
Conclusion: The Square Comes Full Circle