The development of Chinese martial arts fiction
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Bibliographic Information
The development of Chinese martial arts fiction
(The Cambridge China library)
Cambridge University Press, 2016
- : hardback
- Other Title
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A swordsman's dream of literati
千古文人侠客梦
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Originally published by Peking University Press as A swordsman's dream of literati in 2010"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 China.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Wuxia novels and me
- 1. The Xiake dream of the literati through the ages
- 2. Haoxia stories of the Tang and Song dynasties
- 3. Xiayi novels of the Qing dynasty
- 4. Twentieth-century Wuxia novels
- 5. Carrying a sword and doing Xiake deeds
- 6. Sweet revenge
- 7. The smiling proud Xiake
- 8. Roving to the ends of the world
- 9. Wuxia novels as a literary genre
- Appendices
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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