Jeffrey C. Kinkley

From Oppression to Dependency: Two Stages in the Fiction of Chen Yingzhen

were only collected posthumously. Also in 1988, the University of Hong Kong, with the University of Chicago as co-sponsor, convened an international research conference on &dquo;Chen Yingzhen’s Fiction and Nonfiction.&dquo; Seldom has a single living modem Chinese author, or even a dead one, been the subject of such a grand and genuinely academic symposium. The intellectual, moral, and artistic expectations created for Chen Yingzhen are now extremely high. Yet Chen Yingzhen’s artistic stature remains moot. Joseph S. M. Lau, who does regard Chen’s writing highly and probably rates him