Stateless Subjects : : Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History / / Petrus Liu.

Known in the West primarily through poorly subtitled films, Chinese martial arts fiction is one of the most iconic and yet the most understudied form of modern sinophone creativity. Current scholarship on the subject is characterized by three central assumptions against which this book argues: first...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction Stateless Subjects
  • Chapter 1 The Vicissitudes of Anticolonial Nationalism
  • Chapter 2 Women and Martial Arts Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s Marital, Martial, and Marxian Problems
  • Chapter 3 The Permanent Arms Economy Jin Yong’s Historical Fiction and the C old War in Asia
  • Chapter 4 Jin Yong’s Islam in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
  • Chapter 5 A Tale of Two Chinas Gu Long and Anomalous Colonies
  • Bibliography
  • Index