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Author Rosenmeier, Christopher, author.

Title On the margins of modernism : Xu Xu, Wumingshi and popular Chinese literature in the 1940s / Christopher Rosenmeier
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 139 pages)
Series Edinburgh East Asian Studies Series
Edinburgh East Asian Studies series.
Contents Introduction -- Tradition and hybridity in Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying -- Wartime literature between tradition and modernity -- Boundaries of the real in Xu Xu's fiction -- Wumingshi and the wartime romances -- Opposition, imitation, adaptation and diffusion in popular Chinese literature
Summary Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). This groundbreaking book re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940s with in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-133) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Xu, Xu, 1908-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation
Wumingshi -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Wumingshi fast
Xu, Xu, 1908-1980 fast
Subject Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- China
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Chinese literature
Modernism (Literature)
China
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748696376
0748696377