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The big cheat (Da ma bian) : a late Qing novel by Huang Shizhong on Kang Youwei / by translated with a preface and introduction by Luke S. K. Kwong.
LIBRA PL2710.U2794 D313 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huang, Shizhong, 1872-1912, author.
- Series:
- Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 30.
- Ideas, history, and modern China, 1875-9394 ; volume 30
- Standardized Title:
- Da ma bian. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kang, Youwei, 1858-1927--Fiction.
- Kang, Youwei.
- Kang, Youwei, 1858-1927.
- Genre:
- Biographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xliii, 170 pages : color illustration ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Contrary to the usual sympathetic image of Kang Youwei found in historical studies, The Big Cheat offers a starkly negative portrayal of Kang. Its author, Huang Shizhong, a late Qing revolutionary and prolific author of over 20 novels, depicts Kang as a lifelong master fraud. His attack on Kang sheds light on the reform-revolution divide featured in every narrative about the rise of modern China. Huang's novel stands as a period testimony to the political and ideological struggles for China's future during the last years of the Qing dynasty before it fell in 1912. This is the first English language edition of the novel, translated by Luke S. K. Kwong, who offers an extensive introduction contextualizing this lessor-known historical perspective on the last years of imperial China"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Big cheat (Da ma bian)
- ISBN:
- 9789004541481
- 9004541489
- OCLC:
- 1369676100
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