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A History of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction
Author | : Chen Pingyuan |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2016-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781107069886 |
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The seminal work on the evolution, aesthetics and politics of modern martial arts fiction from one of China's leading scholars.
Green Peony and the Rise of the Chinese Martial Arts Novel
Author | : Margaret B. Wan |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2009-01-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780791477052 |
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Martial arts fiction has been synonymous with popular fiction in China from the Qing dynasty on. This book, the first to trace the early development of the martial arts novel in China, demonstrates that the genre took shape nearly a century earlier than generally recognized. Green Peony (1800), one of the earliest martial arts novels, lies at the center of a web of literary relations connecting many of the significant genres of fiction in its day. Adapted from a drum ballad, Green Peony parodies both previous popular fiction and the great Ming novels, generating humorous reflection on their values. By focusing on popular fiction and popular culture, Margaret B. Wan argues for the relevance of genre to literary criticism, the convergence of "popular" and "elite" fiction in the nineteenth century, and a general turn from didacticism to entertainment. Literary scholars, historians, and anyone who wishes to know more about Chinese popular culture in the Qing dynasty will benefit from reading this book.
The Jin Yong Phenomenon
Author | : Ann Huss,Jianmei Liu |
Publsiher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781934043080 |
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This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yong's works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in Chinese literature to the English-speaking audience. Jin Yong is hailed as the most influential martial arts novelist in twentieth-century Chinese literary history. His novels are regarded by readers and critics as "the common language of Chinese around the world" because of their international circulation and various adaptations (film, television serials, comic books, video games). Not only has the public affirmed the popularity and literary value of his novels, but the academic world has finally begun to notice his achievement as well. The significance of this book lies in its interpretation of Jin Yong's novels through the larger lens of twentieth-century Chinese literature. It considers the important theoretical issues arising from such terms as modernity, gender, nationalism, East/West conflict, and high literature versus low culture. The contributors of the articles are all eminent scholars, including famous exiled scholar, philosopher, and writer Liu Zaifu.
The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang
Author | : John Christopher Hamm |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231549004 |
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Xiang Kairan, who wrote under the pen name “the Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang,” is remembered as the father of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, one of the most distinctive forms of twentieth-century Chinese culture and the inspiration for China’s globally popular martial arts cinema. In this book, John Christopher Hamm shows how Xiang Kairan’s work and career offer a new lens on the transformations of fiction and popular culture in early-twentieth-century China. The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang situates Xiang Kairan’s career in the larger contexts of Republican-era China’s publishing industry, literary debates, and political and social history. At a time when writers associated with the New Culture movement promoted an aggressively modernizing vision of literature, Xiang Kairan consciously cultivated his debt to homegrown narrative traditions. Through careful readings of Xiang Kairan’s work, Hamm demonstrates that his writings, far from being the formally fossilized and ideologically regressive relics their critics denounced, represent a creative engagement with contemporary social and political currents and the demands and possibilities of an emerging cultural marketplace. Hamm takes martial arts fiction beyond the confines of genre studies to situate it within a broader reexamination of Chinese literary modernity. The first monograph on Xiang Kairan’s fiction in any language, The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang rewrites the history of early-twentieth-century Chinese literature from the standpoints of genre fiction and commercial publishing.
Stateless Subjects
Author | : Petrus Liu |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781933947754 |
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A History of Chinese Martial Arts
Author | : Fuhua Huang,Fan Hong |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2018-09-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317239932 |
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Chinese martial arts have a long, meaningful history and deep cultural roots. They blend the physical components of combat with strategy, philosophy and tradition, distinguishing them from Western sports. A History of Chinese Martial Arts is the most authoritative study ever written on this topic, featuring contributions from leading Chinese scholars and practitioners. The book provides a comprehensive overview of all types of Chinese martial arts, from the Pre-Qin Period (before 222 BC) right up to the present day in the People’s Republic of China, with each chapter covering a different period in Chinese history. Including numerous illustrations of artefacts, weaponry and historical drawings and documents, this book offers unparalleled insight into the origins, development and contemporary significance of martial arts in China. This is a fascinating read for researchers and students working in sports history, Chinese sport and Chinese Studies.
The Shaolin Monastery
Author | : Meir Shahar |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2008-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824831103 |
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This meticulously researched and eminently readable study considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.
Sound Rising from the Paper
Author | : Paize Keulemans |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2020-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781684175444 |
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Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in colorful dialect accents, vendor calls ring out from bustling marketplaces, and martial arts action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords and the sounds of bodies colliding. What is the purpose of these sounds, and what is their history? In Sound Rising from the Paper, Paize Keulemans answers these questions by critically reexamining the relationship between martial arts novels published in the final decades of the nineteenth century and earlier storyteller manuscripts. He finds that by incorporating, imitating, and sometimes inventing storyteller sounds, these novels turned the text from a silent object into a lively simulacrum of festival atmosphere, thereby transforming the solitary act of reading into the communal sharing of an oral performance. By focusing on the role sound played in late nineteenth-century martial arts fiction, Keulemans offers alternatives to the visual models that have dominated our approach to the study of print culture, the commercialization of textual production, and the construction of the modern reading subject.