The development of Chinese martial arts fiction /
"Chen Pingyuan is one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese literature, known particularly for his work on wuxia, a popular and influential genre of historical martial arts fiction still celebrated around the world today. This work, presented here in English translation for the first time,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Cambridge China library.
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| Summary: | "Chen Pingyuan is one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese literature, known particularly for his work on wuxia, a popular and influential genre of historical martial arts fiction still celebrated around the world today. This work, presented here in English translation for the first time, is considered to be the seminal work on the evolution, aesthetics and politics of the modern Chinese wuxia novel in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tracing the resurgence of interest in classical chivalric tales in late Qing China"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 259 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-248) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107069886 1107069882 |