Title: Introduction to Chinese Cultural History / The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature / 01.7 Post-Mao: The Return of Modernity (1977–1989)

Front: In Post-Mao times, how did writers pry themselves from their ideological constraints?
Back: - romantic self-expression,
- modernist literary styles,
- critical realism, and
- the avant-garde

Front: Of the women writers that emerged on a large scale in the post-Mao period, who was the most famous?
Back: Wang Anyi

Front: Name some post-Mao literary movements.
Back: - Misty poetry,
- scar literature,
- roots-seeking literature,
- avant-garde,
- "Of course, not all writing produced in the 1980s fit neatly into these movements".

Front: What entered China in the 1980s, with a big cultural influence?
Back: Taiwan and Hong Kong commercial culture (film, pop music, television programs, and fiction), also previously banned writers like Eileen Chang and Shen Congwen.