On the Margins of Modernism

Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s

AvChristopher Rosenmeier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). This groundbreaking book re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940s with in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-07-10
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:388 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh East Asian Studies
Antal sidor:152
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748696369

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Christopher Rosenmeier is a Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Edinburgh

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In this highly original and impeccably researched study, Christopher Rosenmeier redraws the boundaries of modernism in Chinese fiction, through a comparative stylistic analysis of a set of works that were previously considered to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum of "serious" and "popular" literature. His contribution to the study of the wartime authors Xu Xu and Wumingshi is especially invaluable, as these hugely important writers have received only scant attention from scholars so far.　On the Margins of Modernism　truly is a milestone and will remain a standard reference for students of Chinese modernism for many years to come.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction2. Tradition and Hybridity in Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying3. Wartime Literature Between Tradition and Modernity4. Boundaries of the Real in Xu Xu’s Fiction5. Wumingshi and the Wartime Romances6. Opposition, Imitation, Adaptation, and Diffusion in Popular Chinese LiteratureBibliography; Notes