On the Margins of Modernism: Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s (Edinburgh East Asian Studies) - Hardcover

Rosenmeier, Christopher

 
9780748696369: On the Margins of Modernism: Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s (Edinburgh East Asian Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0748696369 ISBN 13: 9780748696369
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2017

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Introduces popular 1940s Chinese authors and explores their influence on Chinese literature

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Christopher Rosenmeier is a Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Edinburgh



Christopher Rosenmeier is a Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Edinburgh.

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‘In this highly original and impeccably researched study, Christopher Rosenmeier redraws the boundaries of modernism in Chinese fiction, through a comparative stylistic analysis of a set of works that were previously considered to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum of "serious" and "popular" literature. His contribution to the study of the wartime authors Xu Xu and Wumingshi is especially invaluable, as these hugely important writers have received only scant attention from scholars so far. On the Margins of Modernism truly is a milestone and will remain a standard reference for students of Chinese modernism for many years to come.’Michel Hocx, University of Notre DameXu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), but, although they were an integral part of the Chinese literary scene, their bestselling fiction has been given scant attention in histories of Chinese writing. This groundbreaking book, the first extensive study of Xu Xu and Wumingshi in English or any other Western language, re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940s. With in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels, Christopher Rosenmeier demonstrates how these important writers incorporated and adapted narrative techniques from Shanghai modernist writers like Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying, contesting the view that modernism had little lasting impact in China and firmly positioning these two figures within the literature of their times.Christopher Rosenmeier is a lecturer with the Asian Studies department at the University of Edinburgh.Cover image: Cover image from Wumingshi, North Pole Landscape Painting (Beiji fengqing hua), 1944.Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-0-7486-9636-9Barcode

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In this highly original and impeccably researched study, Christopher Rosenmeier redraws the boundaries of modernism in Chinese fiction, through a comparative stylistic analysis of a set of works that were previously considered to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum of "serious" and "popular" literature. His contribution to the study of the wartime authors Xu Xu and Wumingshi is especially invaluable, as these hugely important writers have received only scant attention from scholars so far. On the Margins of Modernism truly is a milestone and will remain a standard reference for students of Chinese modernism for many years to come. Michel Hocx, University of Notre DameXu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 1945), but, although they were an integral part of the Chinese literary scene, their bestselling fiction has been given scant attention in histories of Chinese writing. This groundbreaking book, the first extensive study of Xu Xu and Wumingshi in English or any other Western language, re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940s. With in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels, Christopher Rosenmeier demonstrates how these important writers incorporated and adapted narrative techniques from Shanghai modernist writers like Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying, contesting the view that modernism had little lasting impact in China and firmly positioning these two figures within the literature of their times.Christopher Rosenmeier is a lecturer with the Asian Studies department at the University of Edinburgh.Cover image: Cover image from Wumingshi, North Pole Landscape Painting (Beiji fengqing hua), 1944.Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-0-7486-9636-9Barcode

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748696369
ISBN 13 
9780748696369
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