Title: Chinese justice, the fiction : law and literature in modern China /
Authors: Kinkley, Jeffrey C., 1948-
Publisher: Stanford University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Chinese fiction History and criticism.; Legal stories, Chinese History and criticism.; Law in literature.
Abstract: "This is the first full-length study in any language of Chinese crime fiction in all eras: ancient, modern, and contemporary. It is also the first book to apply legal scholars' "law and literature" inquiry to the rich field of Chinese legal and literary culture. Familiar Holmesian, quintessentially Chinese, and bizarre East-West hybrids of plots, crimes, detectives, judges, suspects, and ideas of law and corruption emerge from the pages of China's new crime fiction."