On the Margins of Modernism : Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Edinburgh East Asian Studies
ISBN-10
1474444474
ISBN-13
9781474444477
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2019
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
248 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 23.30 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). This groundbreaking book re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940swith in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels.
Introduces popular 1940s Chinese authors and their influence on Chinese literature to an English-speaking readershipThis book introduces and analyzes the fiction of Xu Xu and Wumingshi and shows their importance during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) until 1949. It makes the wider argument that their short stories and novels in this period, and popular Chinese literature more broadly, was indebted to the Shanghai modernist writers of the 1930s (xinganjue pai). Shanghai modernism in the 1930s was an important literary movement, but the conventional view is that these authors had little long-lasting impact on Chinese literature. This book contests this view, arguing that their innovative style was eventually appropriated and adapted into popular literature in multiple ways.
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