Detecting Chinese modernities : : rupture and continuity in modern Chinese detective fiction (1896-1949) / / Yan Wei.
In Detecting Chinese Modernities: Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction (1896–1949) , Yan Wei historicizes the two stages in the development of Chinese detective fiction and discusses the rupture and continuity in the cultural transactions, mediation, and appropriation that occu...
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Superior document: | Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 150 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Sinica Leidensia ;
Volume 150. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Brief History of Modern Detective Fiction in China
- 2 Global Form and Local Expressions: Alternative Modernities in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction
- 3 Overview
- Part 1: The Formative Stage: Chinese Detective Fiction during the Late Qing Period
- 1 Meeting Detective Fiction: Western Detective Fiction in Chinese Translation
- 1 The Spirit of Chivalric Vengeance: Lin Shu’s Translation of A Study in Scarlet
- 2 New Civilizations and Old Morals: Zhou Guisheng, Wu Jianren, and The Serpents’ Coils
- 3 Quwei: Zhou Zuoren and “The Gold-Bug”
- 2 The Detective Story in Traditional Clothes: the Embryonic Form of Native Chinese Detective Fiction
- 1 Sherlock Holmes and the “Quickening Incense”: the Poisoning Case in The Travels of Lao Can
- 2 To Be a Detective or a Cruel Judge: Judge Lu’s Dilemma in The Shining Light in the Sea of Aggrieved Cases
- 3 An Alternative View of Chinese Detective Fiction: the zhiguai Tale “The Shouzhen” in Chinese Detective Cases
- 4 The New Woman and the New Fiction: Lü Simian’s Chinese Female Detectives
- Part 2: The Golden Age: Chinese Detective Fiction in the Republican Period
- 3 “Disguised Textbooks for Science”: Detective Fiction as a Pedagogical Tool
- 1 Chinese Detective Writers and the Community of Scientific Discourse
- 2 Three Aspects of Scientific Discourse in Republican Detective Fiction
- 4 Justice and the Chivalric Detective
- 1 Private Detective Huo Sang and Mozi’s Ideas of jian’ai and youxia
- 2 Burglar-Detective Lu Ping and the Philosophy of Thieves in Zhuangzi
- 5 Shanghai Modern: the Metropolitan Landscape in Chinese Detective Fiction
- 1 Shanghai Cosmopolitanism and Republican Detective Fiction Writers
- 2 Redrawing the Spectacle of Shanghai Modernity
- 3 The Transnational Imagination of Republican Detective Fiction
- 6 Domestic Crimes in Everyday Life
- 1 Local Clues from Daily Life
- 2 Family Crimes during the Transitional Period
- 3 Shanghai Alleyways in Cheng Xiaoqing’s Huo Sang Detective Stories
- Conclusion: the Legacies of the Late Qing Mode and the Republican Mode: Echoes and Variations after 1949
- 1 The Republican Mode and the Detective Fiction of Postwar Hong Kong
- 2 The Late Qing Mode and Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee Series
- Character List
- Works Cited
- Index.