China has witnessed tremendous material, physical and psychological destructions brought about by various forms of modern warfare (world wars, the Cold War, or the imagined intergalactic war) since the late nineteenth century. Modern Chinese novels and fiction have been a privileged site for writers and intellectuals to represent wartime experiences, confront with trauma brought about by the war, and to intervene the politics of visible and invisible violence of the war. How has modern Chinese fiction responded to modern warfare?