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... xiandai xiaoshuo shi [History of modern Chinese fiction]. Edited by T I A N Z H O N G J I and S U N C H A N G X I . Ji'nan: Shandong wenyi chubanshe, 1984. 584 pp. RMB 3.95 (paper). Zhongguo xiandai xiaoshuo shi [History of modern Chinese fiction]. Edited by Z H A O XIAQIU and Z E N G Q I N G R U I...

...Robert E. Hegel Abstract T he field of traditional chinese fiction studies is as diverse in its approaches and findings as the body of material included in the term xiaoshuo , with which the modern field imprecisely corresponds. As a term for classifying writings in early China, xiaoshuo seemingly...

...Xiaoshuo Hou Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi . Edited by Thomas Gold , Doug Guthrie , David Wank . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2002 . xvii , 275 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $21.99 (paper). Copyright ©...

... have been implicitly or explicitly author-centered: Patrick Hanan has been concerned to identify, characterize, and rank individual writers; scholars like Robert Hegel and Andrew Plaks who treat the full-length xiaoshuo (vernacular story) that have come down to us often without attribution develop...

... of the intricate dance between Chinese and Western ideas in this period, and draws our attention away from Liang Qichao by introducing us to a range of lesser-known publicists, reformers, and educators. Gimpel's subject is four important years 1910 through 1913 in the life of the literary journal Xiaoshuo yuebao...

... that addresses questions of ideology and history (p. 158). The ideological force that Lu questions throughout the study is the legitimating power of historical discourse in China, and the complex relationship between it and xiaoshuo, the marginal histories and fictions that both exploit and explode...

... of vernacular xiaoshuo were subject to reshaping in one way or another not long after their publication. Each of these consequently underwent an eventful afterlife through numerous reincarnations often in the form of what is called xushu, ensuing narratives or sequels. Although some literati readers...

... congchao: Xiaoshuo xiqu yanjiu juan (Collected resources on late-Qing literature: Fiction and drama research volume). Beijing : Zhonghua shuju . Ying A . 1991 . Wan Qing xiaoshuo shi (A history of late-Qing fiction). 1980. Reprint, Beijing : Renmin wenxue chuban she . Altick Richard...

...Paul F. Rouzer The Poet Shen Yüeh (441–513): The Reticent Marquis . By Richard B. Mather . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1988 . xii, 260 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 369 in the xiaoshuo...

... with "Whodunit" type entertainment, but as a reflection of a new epistemology based on the powers of reasoning and deduction. This rationalist bent in the journal itself raises larger questions. Following Liang Qichao's injunction that literature serve reform, the writers for Xiaoshuo yuebao willingly subjugated...

... ARMENTROUT MA El Cerrito, California Zhongguo xiandai xiaoshuo shi [History of modern Chinese fiction]. Edited by T I A N Z H O N G J I and S U N C H A N G X I . Ji'nan: Shandong wenyi chubanshe, 1984. 584 pp. RMB 3.95 (paper). Zhongguo xiandai xiaoshuo shi [History of modern Chinese fiction]. Edited by Z H...

... Hanan has been concerned to identify, characterize, and rank individual writers; scholars like Robert Hegel and Andrew Plaks who treat the full-length xiaoshuo (vernacular story) that have come down to us often without attribution develop interpretations that are guided by their search for an implied...

... publicists, reformers, and educators. Gimpel's subject is four important years 1910 through 1913 in the life of the literary journal Xiaoshuo yuebao (The short story magazine), which was founded in Shanghai in 1910 and published by the Commercial Press. The bulk of the study is a close reading...

... of constant revision and rewriting. Especially during the Ming and Qing periods, almost all the major long works of vernacular xiaoshuo were subject to reshaping in one way or another not long after their publication. Each of these consequently underwent an eventful afterlife through numerous reincarnations...

...Fei-Ling Wang Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism . By Xiaoshuo Hou . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . xi, 164 pp. ISBN: 9781107448780 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

..., perhaps then becoming the eagle-eyed, culturally competent young writers that anglophone publishers and our society at large most definitely need. They may wish to further concretize and trace out the concept of xijie xiaoshuo —or not; but there is every chance that they will find their experience...

... in the letter writing manuals of the late Ming. When Lu Xun wrote his influential Zhongguo xiaoshuo shilüe ( A Brief History of Chinese Fiction , 1925), he claimed that fiction in the classical language had reached its apogee with the chuanqi (classical tale) of the Tang. Following the Tang, he...

... Bakhtin's emphasis on the protagonist's dynamic evolution. Li then defines her use of the Bildungsroman's Chinese counterpart, chengzhang xiaoshuo 成長小說, a term used since the 1990s. For Li, chengzhang xiaoshuo depict young protagonists' spiritual and psychological development through generational...