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Detecting Chinese modernities : rupture and continuity in modern Chinese detective fiction (1896-1949) /
"In Detecting Chinese Modernities: Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction (1896-1949), Yan Wei historicizes the two stages in the development of Chinese detective fiction and discusses the rupture and continuity in the cultural transactions, mediation, and appropriation that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Sinica Leidensia ;
v. 150. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In Detecting Chinese Modernities: Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction (1896-1949), Yan Wei historicizes the two stages in the development of Chinese detective fiction and discusses the rupture and continuity in the cultural transactions, mediation, and appropriation that occurred when the genre of detective fiction traveled to China during the first half of the twentieth century. Wei identifies two divergent, or even opposite strategies for appropriating Western detective fiction during the late Qing and the Republican periods. She further argues that these two periods in the domestication of detective fiction were also connected by shared emotions. Both periods expressed ambivalent and sometimes contradictory views regarding Chinese tradition and Western modernity"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 283 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004431287 9004431284 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9563 ; |