Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture : Cannibalizations of the Canon

by Rojas, Carlos; Chow, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9780203886649
• ISBN10: 020388664X
• Copyright: 2008-12-08
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Disease of Canonicity

Producing Popularity Michel Hockx Perverse Poems and Suspicious Salons

The Friday School in Modern Chinese Literature Alexander

The Formation of the ""Professional Author"" as a Figure in Early Twentieth

Century Vernacular Fiction Eileen Cheng-yin Chow Serial Sightings

News, Novelties, and Zhang Henshui's An Unofficial History of the Old Capital

Hamm On the Literary Consecration of Jin Yong's Fiction

Cano

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