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Chinese Justice, the Fiction - Law and Literature in Modern China (Hardcover)
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During the first thirty years under communism, China completely
banned crime fiction. After Mao, however, crime genres of all
kinds--old and new, Chinese and Western--sprang up in profusion.
Crime narrative again became one of the most prolific and
best-loved forms of Chinese popular culture, and it often embodied
the Chinese people's most trenchant and open critiques of their
newly restored socialist legal system.
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, which is alternately embraced and condemned by the Chinese
establishment as it lurches uncertainly toward post-communist
society.
Informed by contemporary comparative and theoretical perspectives
on popular culture and the fiction of crime and detection, this
book is based on extensive readings of Chinese crime fiction and
interviews--in China and abroad--with the communist regime's exiled
and still-in-power security and judicial officers. It was in the
Orwellian year of 1984 that the authorities set out to control
China's crime fiction and even to manufacture it themselves--only
to find that fiction, like the social phenomena it depicts, seems
destined to remain one step ahead of the law.
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