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On the margins of modernism : Xu Xu, Wumingshi and popular Chinese literature in the 1940s / Christopher Rosenmeier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenmeier, Christopher, author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh East Asian Studies series.
- Edinburgh East Asian studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wumingshi--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wumingshi.
- Xu, Xu, 1908-1980--Criticism and interpretation.
- Xu, Xu.
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--China.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 139 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). This groundbreaking book re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940's, with in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels.
- 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
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-2646-8
- 1-4744-3480-0
- 0-7486-9637-7
- OCLC:
- 1312727322
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