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The Chinese Political Novel - Migration of a World Genre (Hardcover)
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The Chinese Political Novel - Migration of a World Genre (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to
international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily
concerned with the nation's political future. It offers a
characterization of the present, a blueprint of the future, and the
image of the heroes needed to get there. With the standing it
gained during its meteoric rise, the political novel helped elevate
the novel altogether to become the leading literary genre of the
twentieth century worldwide. Focusing on its adaptation in the
Chinese context, Catherine Vance Yeh traces the genre from
Disraeli's England through Europe and the United States to East
Asia. Her study goes beyond comparative approaches and
nation-state- and language-centered histories of literature to
examine the intrinsic connections among literary works. Through
detailed studies, especially of the Chinese exemplars, Yeh explores
the tensions characteristic of transcultural processes: the
dynamics through which a particular, and seemingly local, literary
genre goes global; the ways in which such a globalized literary
genre maintains its core features while assuming local identity and
interacting with local audiences and political authorities; and the
relationship between the politics of form and the role of politics
in literary innovation.
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