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Paper swordsmen : Jin Yong and the modern Chinese martial arts novel /

The martial arts novel is one of the most distinctive and widely-read forms of modern Chinese fiction. In Paper Swordsmen, John Christopher Hamm offers the first in-depth English-language study of this fascinating and influential genre, focusing on the work of its undisputed twentieth-century master...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamm, John Christopher, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The literary and historical contexts of new school martial arts fiction
  • Local heroes: Guangdong school martial arts fiction and the colony of Hong Kong
  • The marshes of Mount Liang beyond the sea: Jin Yong's early fiction and postwar Hong Kong
  • National passions: from The eagle-shooting heroes to The giant eagle and its companion
  • The empire of text: Jin Yong and Ming Pao
  • Beyond the rivers and lakes: The smiling, proud wanderer
  • Revision and canonization: from Ming Pao to The collected works of Jin Yong
  • Beyond martial arts fiction: The deer and the cauldron
  • Coming home: Jing Yong's fiction in mainland China
  • Jin Yong at the century's end: the Wang Shuo incident and its implications.