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The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang - Republican-Era Martial Arts Fiction (Hardcover)
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The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang - Republican-Era Martial Arts Fiction (Hardcover)
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Xiang Kairan, who wrote under the pen name "the Unworthy Scholar
from Pingjiang," is remembered as the father of modern Chinese
martial arts fiction, one of the most distinctive forms of
twentieth-century Chinese culture and the inspiration for China's
globally popular martial arts cinema. In this book, John
Christopher Hamm shows how Xiang Kairan's work and career offer a
new lens on the transformations of fiction and popular culture in
early-twentieth-century China. The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang
situates Xiang Kairan's career in the larger contexts of
Republican-era China's publishing industry, literary debates, and
political and social history. At a time when writers associated
with the New Culture movement promoted an aggressively modernizing
vision of literature, Xiang Kairan consciously cultivated his debt
to homegrown narrative traditions. Through careful readings of
Xiang Kairan's work, Hamm demonstrates that his writings, far from
being the formally fossilized and ideologically regressive relics
their critics denounced, represent a creative engagement with
contemporary social and political currents and the demands and
possibilities of an emerging cultural marketplace. Hamm takes
martial arts fiction beyond the confines of genre studies to
situate it within a broader reexamination of Chinese literary
modernity. The first monograph on Xiang Kairan's fiction in any
language, The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang rewrites the history
of early-twentieth-century Chinese literature from the standpoints
of genre fiction and commercial publishing.
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