Detecting Chinese Modernities
Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction
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Word Count
70,750 words, Guess
Page Count
283 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004431270
- ISBN-109004431276
- Library of Congress Control Number2020013322
- OCLC Control Number1143618555
- Better World Books9789004431270
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28103527M
Classifications
- LCCPL2419.D48W44 2020
- LCCPL2419.D48 W44 2020
Description
"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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