Paper Swordsmen
Subtitle: Jin Yong And The Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780824828950
Subjects: Adventure / thriller; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Asian - Chinese; General; 1924-; Criticism and interpretation; Jin, Yong,; Martial arts fiction
Description: "The martial arts novel is one of the most distinctive and widely read forms of modern Chinese fiction. It is popular not only within Chinese-language communities but in translation throughout East Asia and in cinematic and other adaptations throughout the world. In Paper Swordsmen, John Christopher Hamm offers the first in-depth English-language study of this influential genre, focusing on the work of its undisputed twentieth-century master, Jin Yong." "Paper Swordsmen will be welcomed by students of Chinese literature, cultural studies, history, political science, anthropology, and comparative literature - as well as fans of martial arts fiction with an interest in the wider implications of the "Jin Yong phenomenon.""--BOOK JACKET.