Xiang Kairan, who wrote under the pen name “the Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang,” is remembered as the father of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, one of the most distinctive forms of twentieth-century Chinese culture and the inspiration for China’s globally popular martial arts cinema. In this book, John Christopher Hamm shows how Xiang Kairan’s work and career offer a new lens on the transformations of fiction and popular culture in early-twentieth-century China. The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang situates Xiang Kairan’s career in the larger contexts of Republican-era China’s publishing industry, literary debates, and political and social history. At a time when writers associated with the New Culture movement promoted an aggressively modernizing vision of literature, Xiang Kairan consciously cultivated his debt to homegrown narrative traditions. Through careful readings of Xiang Kairan’s work, Hamm demonstrates that his writings, far from being the formally fossilized and ideologically regressive relics their critics denounced, represent a creative engagement with contemporary social and political currents and the demands and possibilities of an emerging cultural marketplace. Hamm takes martial arts fiction beyond the confines of genre studies to situate it within a broader reexamination of Chinese literary modernity. The first monograph on Xiang Kairan’s fiction in any language, The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang rewrites the history of early-twentieth-century Chinese literature from the standpoints of genre fiction and commercial publishing.
... and by a dean's dissertation fellowship and a regents ' predoctoral humanities fellowship from the University of ... Ho and the archival staff at Sing Pao ; Mr. Keith Kam of Ming Pao Holdings Ltd .; Mr. Lam Ling Hon ; Mr. Lee ...
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Salt and State is an annotated translation of a treatise on salt from Song China.
Citizens of Beauty is the first book to explore the One Hundred Illustrated Beauties in order to compare social ideals during China’s shift from imperial to Republican times.
This is a book I wish I'd had as a young, queer teen and it deserves a spot in any collection." —Natalie C. Parker, author of the Seafire trilogy
The 13th year of the Taijian era under the reign of Emperor Xuan of Chen; the 1st year of the Kaihuang era under the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui (581 AD) In February, Yang Jian proclaimed himself emperor and established the Sui dynasty, ...
Suolu duofu ni kefu (Soviet Union). “Luoboxun.” Xinhua yuebao 1, no. 1 (1949): 301–2; originally published in Pravda, June 11, 1949. Weilian, Luobote. Daiqiang de Heiren. Translated by Lu Ren. Beijing: Shijie Shudian Chubanshe, 1963.
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Jen-Peng Liu and Ho Li-hsing made it possible for me to teach an undergraduate class on modern Chinese comic literature in ... “Dean” Ji Jin invited me to participate in multiple conferences at Suzhou University—the Deputy Dean salutes!