Chen Pingyuan (Beijing Peking University)

The Development of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

The seminal work on the evolution, aesthetics and politics in the late Qing period of wuxia, a genre of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, from one of China's leading literary scholars, presented here in English translation for the first time.

Produktdetails

• The Cambridge China Library
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781107069886
• ISBN-10: 1107069882
• Artikelnr.: 45153708

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Wuxia novels and me
1. The Xiake dream of the literati through the ages
2. Haoxia stories of the Tang and Song dynasties
3. Xiayi novels of the Qing dynasty
4. Twentieth-century Wuxia novels
5. Carrying a sword and doing Xiake deeds
6. Sweet revenge
7. The smiling proud Xiake
8. Roving to the ends of the world
9. Wuxia novels as a literary genre
Appendices
Select bibliography
Index.