Acknowledgments Editorial Note Introductory Steps to Utopia 0.1 Proposal for a Critical Itinerary within the Chinese Utopia of Modernity 0.2 Preliminary Steps: Cai Yuanpei's Xinnian meng 0.3 Prospective Steps into the Late Qing Utopian Landscape1 Of Textual Territories and Literary Cartographies 1.1 Staking a Claim to Utopia 1.2 Landscapes Long Overshadowed 1.3 Tracing Boundaries to Cross, Drawing Grids to Escape2 Gesturing Toward Utopia 2.1 Liang Qichao's Xin Zhongguo weilai ji; or, on Futures Unrealized 2.

2 Layers of Estrangement in Chen Tianhua's Shizi hou 2.3 If One Intends to Renovate the People of a Nation3 Empires Erased, Empires Rewritten 3.1 The Productive Distortion of Looking Backward 3.2 Looking Further Backward versus Xin jiyuan: the Internecine Phase of Utopia 3.3 Toward a Synthesis of Complementary Discourses4 The Staging of the Utopian Spectacle 4.1 Mending the Waterproof Covering of New China 4.2 Utopia as a Spectacle on the Stage of History 4.3 Familiar and Unfamiliar Rituals in Wu Jianren's Xin Shitou ji5 The Celebration of the Utopian Spectacle 5.

1 Utopia as a Geography of Language New and Old 5.2 An Interplay of Absences 5.3 Suvinian Nova, Utopian Tokens Coda: Utopia's Carnivalization Appendix: New Year's Dream, by Cai Yuanpei Bibliography Index.