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On the Margins of Modernism : Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s / Christopher Rosenmeier.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh East Asian Studies : EEASPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748696369
  • 9780748696376
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.109005 23
LOC classification:
  • PL2303 .R67 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tradition and Hybridity in Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying -- 3 Wartime Literature between Tradition and Modernity -- 4 Boundaries of the Real in Xu Xu’s Fiction -- 5 Wumingshi and the Wartime Romances -- 6 Opposition, Imitation, Adaptation and Diffusion in Popular Chinese Literature -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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-length 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 historyFocuses on two of the most popular Chinese authors of the 1940sDevelops a wider argument about the influence of Shanghai modernism on Chinese wartime literature
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tradition and Hybridity in Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying -- 3 Wartime Literature between Tradition and Modernity -- 4 Boundaries of the Real in Xu Xu’s Fiction -- 5 Wumingshi and the Wartime Romances -- 6 Opposition, Imitation, Adaptation and Diffusion in Popular Chinese Literature -- Bibliography -- Index

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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-length 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 historyFocuses on two of the most popular Chinese authors of the 1940sDevelops a wider argument about the influence of Shanghai modernism on Chinese wartime literature

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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