In the past decade, some of the leading journals in literary studies such as Modern Language Quarterly (2008), Neohelicon (2010), Comparative Literature Studies (2012) and Modern Fiction Studies (2016) have published special issues or clusters of articles on related topics; most of these were edited by myself in collaboration with Western colleagues; nevertheless, compared with other monographs and edited volumes on general topics of comparative literature, the results are still far from satisfactory. Zou Li deals with the topic of China's anti-Japanese War literature in an essay that, unlike numerous previous analyses, offers an alternative narrative about wartime China: here, body anxiety is taken as a vehicle to represent the wartime experience of the Chinese people, Ba Jin's Cold Nights being a typical case. Even the concept "Weltliteratur" was conceptualized by Goethe under the inspiration of his reading of Oriental literature, which included the few minor Chinese literary works that he had had access to. ...Chinese literature from 1949 to 1976 can be considered as belonging to modern literature in a broad sense.