Chinese fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : essays /
It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution. In this collection of detailed and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2004.
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| ISBN: | 1423724615 9781423724612 9780231133241 0231133243 0231509146 9780231509145 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The narrator's voice before the 'Fiction Revolution'
- Illusion of romance and the courtesan novel
- The missionary novels of nineteenth-century China
- The first novel translated into Chinese
- The translated fiction in the early Shen Bao
- The new novel before the new novel: John Fryer's fiction contest
- The second stage of vernacular translation
- Wu Jianren and the narrator
- Specific literary relations of Sea of regrets
- The autobiographical romance of Chen Diexian
- The technique of Lu Xun's fiction.