The Uneasy Narrator: Chinese Fiction from the Traditional to the Modern (LONDON ORIENTAL SERIES) - Hardcover
In the hierarchy of Chinese culture, fiction once occupied a low position. But in twentieth-century China, fiction has become a highly important cultural discourse. This book offers a historical analysis of the narrative form of Chinese fiction, and traces in detail its development from the traditional mode to the modern. By means of this formal analysis, the book tries to find the root cause for this development in the changing structure of Chinese culture in the early years of the twentieth century.
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"Zhao deserves the reader's praise for having produced a fine, pioneering study of a most involved topic, one which obviously requires profound knowledge and intellectual vigor. The book is provocative and often brilliant in its complex and nuanced understanding of the status of vernacular fiction in Chinese culture....a significant contribution that will benefit not only vernacular-fiction specialists but also students of Chinese literature in general."--World Literature Today
Henry Y. H. Zhao is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
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"Zhao deserves the reader's praise for having produced a fine, pioneering study of a most involved topic, one which obviously requires profound knowledge and intellectual vigor. The book is provocative and often brilliant in its complex and nuanced understanding of the status of vernacular fiction in Chinese culture....a significant contribution that will benefit not only vernacular-fiction specialists but also students of Chinese literature in general."--World Literature Today
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- PublisherSchool of Oriental and African Studies
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0197136117
- ISBN 13 9780197136119
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages312
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The Uneasy Narrator: Chinese Fiction from the Traditional to the Modern (London Oriental Series)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 302 pages. Offers a historical analysis of the narrative form of Chinese fiction, and traces in detail its development from the traditional mode to the modern. The author attempts to discover the root cause for this development in the changing structure of Chinese culture in the early 20th century. Seller Inventory # PGSOASPUB805
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