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Detecting Chinese modernities : rupture and continuity in modern Chinese detective fiction (1896-1949) / by Yan Wei.
Van Pelt Library PL2419.D48 W44 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wei, Yan (Professor of literature), author.
- Series:
- Sinica Leidensia ; v. 150.
- Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; volume 150
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, Chinese--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, Chinese.
- Chinese fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese fiction.
- Chinese fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 283 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Summary:
- "In Detecting Chinese Modernities: Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction (1896-1949), Yan Wei historicizes the two stages in the development of Chinese detective fiction and discusses the rupture and continuity in the cultural transactions, mediation, and appropriation that occurred when the genre of detective fiction traveled to China during the first half of the twentieth century. Wei identifies two divergent, or even opposite strategies for appropriating Western detective fiction during the late Qing and the Republican periods. She further argues that these two periods in the domestication of detective fiction were also connected by shared emotions. Both periods expressed ambivalent and sometimes contradictory views regarding Chinese tradition and Western modernity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wei, Yan. Detecting Chinese modernities.
- ISBN:
- 9789004431270
- 9004431276
- OCLC:
- 1143618555
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