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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Ban Wang During his tenure in the Lu Xun Academy in Yan'an, the center of the Chinese Revolution, the novelist Zhou Libo ran a seminar on world literature. While teaching masterpieces of European novelists, Zhou developed a theory of the novel that inherited themes of liberal humanism...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... opposition between nationalism and pan-Africanism. In post-Mao China, Chinese writers released the local from the grip of the state and aligned localism with a nascent cosmopolitanism, which inclined them to identify with Third World cosmopolitan writers. In the process of translating post-Mao Chinese...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Franco Moretti My essay poses three questions: Why are novels in prose? Why are they so often stories of adventures? Why was there a European but not a Chinese rise of the novel in the course of the eighteenth century? Disparate as they may sound, the questions have a common source in the guiding...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Ian Afflerbach Abstract Cixin Liu's science fiction trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past has sold more than 8 million copies and earned him the first Hugo Award to an Asian writer; it represents Chinese SF's breakout success in the anglophone fiction market. While his novels have received...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 258–276.
Published: 01 November 2004
.... Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities: A Reader . Berkeley: U of California P, 2002 . Buruma , Ian . “Becoming Japanese.” The New Yorker 23 –30 December 1996 : 60–71. Chan , Jachinson . Chinese American Masculinities: From Fu Manchu to Bruce Lee . New York: Routledge, 2001...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 163–168.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... Lowe, the novel’s protagonist, is a Chinese female
stowaway on board a ship bringing indentured laborers to Jamaica in the mid-
nineteenth century, after the abolition of slavery. In Jamaica, Lowe lives disguised
as a man, married to Miss Sylvie, an octoroon who also has a (hidden) history...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Miranda Burgess Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 According to the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, “Nowhere in the world are there to be found people richer than the Chinese.” The quotation appears as the epigraph to Kevin Kwan's 2013 bestseller Crazy Rich Asians...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 254–271.
Published: 01 November 2005
... . Ed. Alexander Campbell Fraser. 2 vols . New York: Dover, 1959 . Lovejoy , A. O. “The Chinese Origin of a Romanticism.” Essays in the History of Ideas . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1948 . 99 –135. Mack , Robert L. Introduction. Arabian Nights’ Entertainments . Oxford: Oxford...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 369–385.
Published: 01 November 2019
... specificity, they each articulated similar projects: Anand sought to expose a side of the Indian city that he felt was absent in E. M. Forster's setting of Chandrapore, while Lao She planned to “write back” to Conrad's Lord Jim by unearthing the migrant histories of the urban Chinese diaspora. The novels...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2019
... modernity. The economy may cause the rise of the novel, but the novel causes the rise of the nation and its subjects. Four primary texts—the anonymous Chinese novel The Plum in the Golden Vase ( Jin Ping Mei ) (ca. 1580–1600), Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (1605, 1615), Ihara Saikaku's Life...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 240–264.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... “Chinese Capitalists and the Japanese: Collaboration and Resistance in the Shanghai Area, 1937–45.” Yeh, Wartime Shanghai 62 –85. Conrad , Joseph . Heart of Darkness . 1899. 4th ed. Paul B. Armstrong, ed. New York: Norton, 2006 . Davis , Mike . “The Urbanization of Empire: Megacities...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 276–279.
Published: 01 August 2006
... (1931), Edgar Snow's Red Star Over Chiiza (1938) and
John Steinbeck's Cairrzery Row (1945). These works offer rather idealized (if occasionally
anxious) portraits of Chinese or Chinese American characters: Chinese peasants, Mao and
his cohort of communist revolutionaries, a Chinese American...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 488–491.
Published: 01 November 2011
... justice, converting to Judaism and par-
taking in the utopian interethnic experiment of “Camp Gugelstein,” where Jews, African
Americans, this Jewish Chinese American girl, whites, and a Latino will live together in
a mansion abandoned momentarily by vacationing parents. Mona’s fantasy, according...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): iv.
Published: 01 November 2004
..., and Senior Editor of the multi-lingual journal Traces, published in Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, and English. His publications include Voices of the Past: The Status of
Language in 18Lh-Century Japanese Discourse (Cornell UP, 1991), Translation and
Subjectivity (U of Minnesota P, 1997), Shisan saren...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): v–vi.
Published: 01 May 2014
...).
nancy armstrong is Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English at Duke University,
author most recently of How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719–1900 (2006), and editor of
Novel: A Forum on Fiction.
ban wang is William Haas Professor of Chinese Studies...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 149–153.
Published: 01 May 2007
... from around the world (ranging from
Heliodorus's Aethiopika to Orhan Pamuk's Dze Black Book), explorations of the African
novel and the Chinese "novel," discussions of cross-pollinations between various literary
traditions, explorations of book history, thoughts on the longue durke, and so...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 145–148.
Published: 01 May 2007
... collection? Like a good novel, it tries to reconcile in-
teriority with the social. The first volume, History, Geography, and Culture, approaches its
object from the outside; the second, Form and Tllemes, from the inside. Its organization
thus mimics what one contributor calls the classical Chinese...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 5–31.
Published: 01 May 1999
... de critique littéraires . Montréal: Beauchemin, 1946 . Emerson , Caryl , and Gary Saul Morson. Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1990 . Fan , Ts’un-chung . “Chinese Fables and Anti-Walpole Journalism.” Review of English Studies . 25.98 ( 1949...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 482–489.
Published: 01 November 2009
... encounter with North, regarded the significance of this new mode
of writing. Abdullah recounts an episode in which he painstakingly describes to
John Crawfurd, then British Resident in Singapore, how he (Abdullah) had secretly
observed the initiation rites of a notoriously violent Chinese “secret...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Mark C. Jerng Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 I have visited the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento several times. Each time, I pay for the tickets, turn the corner, and am immersed in a dark, cavernous space highlighted by a diorama of Chinese railroad workers...
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