Fin-de-Siecle Splendor

Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1848-1911

Autor: David Der-Wei Wang

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the div...

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Autor

David Der-Wei Wang

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engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1997

Pagini

444

EAN

9780804728454

ISBN

0804728453

Enbook ID

04716569

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

817

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 32

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The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient modernities. It demonstrates that late Qing fiction nurtured a creative, innovative poetics, one that was spurned by the reformers of the May Fourth generation in favor of Western-style realism. The author recognizes that a full account of modern Chinese fiction needs to ask why so many genres, styles, themes, and figures found in late imperial fiction were repressed by modern Chinese literary discourse. He focuses on four genres of late Qing fiction that have been either rudely dismissed in pejorative terms or simply ignored: depravity romances, court-case and chivalric cycles, grotesque exposZs, and scientific fantasies. The author shows that in spite of the realist orthodoxy that has dominated Chinese literature since the May Fourth movement, these unwelcome genres have continually found their way back into mainstream discourse, their influence being increasingly evident in recent decades.

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