Chinese fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Subtitle: essays
By: by Patrick Hanan.
Series: Masters of Chinese studies -- vol. 2
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Chinese fiction -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism; Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Other titles: Essays on Chinese fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Chinese fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Description: "It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution. In this collection of detailed and insightful essays, Hanan examines Chinese fiction before and during the period in which Chinese writers first came into contact with western fiction."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: The narrator's voice before the 'Fiction Revolution'; title: Illusion of romance and the courtesan novel; title: The missionary novels of nineteenth-century China; title: The first novel translated into Chinese; title: The translated fiction in the early Shen Bao; title: The new novel before the new novel: John Fryer's fiction contest; title: The second stage of vernacular translation; title: Wu Jianren and the narrator; title: Specific literary relations of Sea of regret; title: The autobiographical romance of Chen Diexian; title: The technique of Lu Xun's fiction.