Stateless subjects : Chinese martial arts literature and postcolonial history /

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Provides a historical and political interpretation of the martial arts novel, making a case for the importance and significance of the genre and relating it to movements such as the Ming desire to overthrow the Qing, anticolonial nationalism of the 1920s, the Cold War, and the rise of Taiwanese cons...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Liu, Petrus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell East Asia Program, ©2011.
Series:Cornell East Asia series ; 162.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Chinese fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Martial arts fiction, Chinese > History and criticism.
Roman chinois > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Récits d'arts martiaux chinois > Histoire et critique.
Chinese fiction
Martial arts fiction, Chinese
Chinesisch
Wuxia-Roman
Kampfsport > Motiv
Geschlechterrolle > Motiv
Politik > Motiv
China
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The vicissitudes of anticolonial nationalism
  • Women and martial arts : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon's marital, martial, and Marxian problems
  • The permanent arms economy : Jin Yong's historical fiction and the Cold War in Asia
  • Jin Yong's Islam in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
  • A tale of two Chinas : Gu Long and anomalous colonies.

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