TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosenmeier,Christopher
TI  - On the Margins of Modernism: Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s 
T2  - Edinburgh East Asian Studies : EEAS
SN  - 9780748696369
AV  - PL2303 .R67 2017
U1  - 895.109005 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Chinese literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - China
KW  - Language & Linguistics
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748696376?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748696376
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748696376/original
ER  -