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, is con...

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Main Author: Chen, Pingyuan 1954- (Author)
Other Authors: Petersen, Victor (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2016
Edition:Updated edition
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Item Description:Auf dem Umschlag: A history of Wuxia literature
Physical Description:xv, 259 pages
ISBN:9781107069886
1107069882

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