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934 kr
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This engaging translation presents an authentic period document that reflects aspects of Chinese life and society as seen through a contemporary's eyes. Portraying a "phony" reformer who rode the tide of the Qing court's post-Boxer reform initiatives to career success and personal wealth, this satire conveys the author's hope for a new, improved China, one that could stand proudly alongside Western nations and Meiji Japan in the modern world. His vivid descriptions of various situations shed light on late Qing elite behavior and Chinese foreign relations capture the clash between tradition and modernity, the old and new, as educated Chinese stood at a cultural and political crossroads.
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This engaging translation presents an authentic period document that reflects aspects of Chinese life and society as seen through a contemporary's eyes. Portraying a "phony" reformer who rode the tide of the Qing court's post-Boxer reform initiatives to career success and personal wealth, this satire conveys the author's hope for a new, improved China, one that could stand proudly alongside Western nations and Meiji Japan in the modern world. His vivid descriptions of various situations shed light on late Qing elite behavior and Chinese foreign relations capture the clash between tradition and modernity, the old and new, as educated Chinese stood at a cultural and political crossroads.
Del 30 - Ideas, History, and Modern China
Big Cheat (Da ma bian): A Late Qing Novel by Huang Shizhong on Kang Youwei
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 904 kr
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Contrary to the usual sympathetic image of Kang Youwei found in historical studies, The Big Cheat offers a starklynegative portrayal of Kang. Its author, Huang Shizhong, a late Qing revolutionary and prolific author of over 20novels, depicts Kang as a lifelong master fraud. His attack on Kang sheds light on the reform-revolution dividefeatured in every narrative about the rise of modern China.Huang’s novel stands as a period testimony to the political and ideological struggles for China’s future during thelast years of the Qing dynasty before it fell in 1912. This is the first English language edition of the novel, translatedby Luke S. K. Kwong, who offers an extensive introduction contextualizing Huang's novel in historical perspective.