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245 0 0 _aRethinking Chinese popular culture: cannibalizations of the canon /
_cedited by Carlos Rojas and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2009.
300 _axi, 288 p. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aNotes on contributors Introduction: the disease of canonicity CARLOS ROJAS PART-I Producing popularity 1. Perverse poems and suspicious salons: the Friday School in modern Chinese literature MICHEL HOCKX 2. Professional anxiety, brand names, and wild chickens: from 1909 ALEXANDER DES FORGES 3. Serial sightings: news, novelties, and an Unofficial History of the Old Capital EILEEN CHENG-YIN CHOW 4. Canonizing the popular: the case of Jin Yong JOHN CHRISTOPHER HAMM PART II Canonical reflections 5. An archaeology of repressed popularity: Zhou Shoujuan, Mao Dun, and their 1920s literary polemics JIANHUA CHEN 6. A tale of two cities: romance, revenge, and nostalgia in two fin-de-siecle novels by Ye Zhaoyan and Zhang Beihai MICHAEL BERRY 7. From romancing the state to romancing the store: further elaborations of Butterfly motifs in contemporary Taiwan literature PING-HUI LIAO PART III Nostalgia and amnesia 8. Rewriting the Red Classics DAI JINHUA 9. The reproduction of a popular hero WEIJIE SONG 10. Memory, photographic seduction, and allegorical correspondence: Eileen Chang's Mutual Reflections XIAOJUE WANG PART IV Gender and desire 11. Popular literature and national representation: the gender and genre politics of Begonia DAVID DER-WEI WANG 12. "What sort of thing is sentiment?" Gifts, love tokens, and material evidence in Jin Yong's novels HSIAO-HUNG CHANG 13. Authorial afterlives and apocrypha in 1990s Chinese fiction CARLOS ROJAS
650 0 _aChinese literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aPopular culture
_zChina.
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