| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 348 pages) |
| Contents |
The literary and historical contexts of new school martial arts fiction -- Local heroes: Guangdong school martial arts fiction and the colony of Hong Kong -- The marshes of Mount Liang beyond the sea: Jin Yong's early fiction and postwar Hong Kong -- National passions: from The eagle-shooting heroes to The giant eagle and its companion -- The empire of text: Jin Yong and Ming Pao -- Beyond the rivers and lakes: The smiling, proud wanderer -- Revision and canonization: from Ming Pao to The collected works of Jin Yong -- Beyond martial arts fiction: The deer and the cauldron -- Coming home: Jing Yong's fiction in mainland China -- Jin Yong at the century's end: the Wang Shuo incident and its implications |
| Summary |
The martial arts novel is one of the most distinctive and widely-read forms of modern Chinese fiction. In Paper Swordsmen, John Christopher Hamm offers the first in-depth English-language study of this fascinating and influential genre, focusing on the work of its undisputed twentieth-century master, Jin Yong. Through close readings of Jin Yong's recognized masterpieces, Hamm shows how these works combine a rich literary tradition with an extraordinary narrative artistry and an evolving appreciation of the political and cultural aspects of contemporary Chinese experience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-339) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Jin, Yong, 1924-2018 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Jin, Yong, 1924-2018 fast |
| Subject |
Martial arts fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Chinese.
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Martial arts fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780824863869 |
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0824863860 |
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