Introduction -- Tradition and hybridity in Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying -- Wartime literature between tradition and modernity -- Boundaries of the real in Xu Xu's fiction -- Wumingshi and the wartime romances -- Opposition, imitation, adaptation and diffusion in popular Chinese literature
Summary
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 1940s with in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-133) and index