| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 289 pages) |
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Introduction: Corruption, realism, and the return of the political novel -- The trendsetter: Lu Tianming's Heaven above -- The banned blockbuster: Chen Fang's Heaven's wrath -- Climax: The Alarum and standard bearer: Zhang Ping's Choice -- Anticorruption by indirection: Wang Yuewen's National portrait -- Dirt plus soap equals pay dirt: Liu Ping's Dossier on smuggling --Chinese realism, popular culture, and the critics -- Conclusion: The Chinese discourse of Corruption -- and its limits |
| Summary |
Examines the rebirth of the Chinese political novel and its media adaptations, explaining how the works reflect contemporary Chinese life and how they embody Chinese traditions of social criticism, literary realism, and contemplation of taboo subjects. This book includes excerpts from personal interviews with China's 3 anticorruption novelists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-267) 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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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Political fiction, Chinese -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- China
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Chinese.
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Chinese fiction
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Political fiction, Chinese
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Politics and literature
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Politischer Roman
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Korruption Motiv
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Roman
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China
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Chinesisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435608917 |
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1435608917 |
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9780804768108 |
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0804768102 |
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