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1 online resource (vi, 139 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Edinburgh East Asian Studies Series
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Edinburgh East Asian Studies series.
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| Summary |
This book introduces and analyzes the fiction of Xu Xu and Wuminghsi and shows their importance during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) until 1949. It makes the wider argument that their short stories and novels in this period, an popular Chinese literature more broadly, was indebted to the Shanghai modernist writers of the 1930s (xinganjue pai). Shanghai modernism in the 1930s was an important literary movement, but the conventional view is that these authors had little long-lasting impact on Chinese literature. This book contests this view, arguing that their innovative style was eventually appropriated and adapted into popular literature in multiple ways. |
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Introduces popular 1940s Chinese authors and explores their influence on Chinese literature Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), but although they were an integral part of the Chinese literary scene their bestselling fiction has been given scant attention in histories of Chinese writing. This groundbreaking book, the first book-lenghth study of Xu Xu and Wumingshi in English or any other western language, re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940s. With in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels, Christopher Rosenmeier demonstrates how these important writers incorporated and adapted narrative techniques from Shanghai modernist writers like Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying, contesting the view that modernism had little lasting impact in China and firmly positioning these two figures within the literature of their times. Fills a gap in Chinese literary history Focuses on two of the most popular Chinese authors of the 1940s Develops a wider argument about the influence of Shanghai modernism on Chinese wartime literature |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-133) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Tradition and hybridity in Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying -- Wartime literature between tradition and modernity -- Boundaries of the real in Xu Xu's fiction -- Wumingshi and the wartime romances -- Opposition, imitation, adaptation and diffusion in popular Chinese literature. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Xu, Xu, 1908-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Xu, Xu, 1908-1980. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Wumingshi -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wumingshi. |
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Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Chinese literature. |
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20th century |
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Modernism (Literature) -- China.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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China. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rosenmeier, Christopher. On the margins of modernism. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2017] 9780748696369 (OCoLC)996400290 |
| ISBN |
9780748696376 (electronic book) |
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0748696377 (electronic book) |
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9780748696369 (hardcover) |
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0748696369 (hardcover) |
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9781474426466 (epub) |
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1474426468 (epub) |
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