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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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Cambridge China library.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Wuxia novels and me
- The Xiake dream of the literati through the ages
- Haoxia stories of the Tang and Song dynasties
- Xiayi novels of the Qing dynasty
- Twentieth-century Wuxia novels
- Carrying a sword and doing Xiake deeds
- Sweet revenge
- Feeling smug in Jianghu
- Roving to the ends of the world
- Wuxia novels as a literary genre.