Verlag:
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
"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...
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Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), Abteilung Ostasien
Signatur:
PL2419.M37 C4413 2016
Fernleihe:
uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
"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"--