... in that it lessened the unpredictability and openness of the new genre for the reader. The insertion of the wedge, a standard feature of traditional Chinese novels, served the purpose of bringing this foreign plot structure under local control. As Yeh shows, this led to a highly creative process of merging...

... by both commentators and practitioners. However, BL's increasing interweaving with homosexuality and sexual minorities in China requires scholars to reread and redefine BL practice in its Chinese context. This article discusses some of the recent transformations of the BL genre in China, examines...

... successful revolution, the style of Exile is characterized by a virtual lack of style. This lack of style is precisely the main stylistic characteristic of the second type of MCP fiction, which does not have a self-conscious sense of form or genre but does have a sense of mission. Dubbing...

...Maghiel van Crevel Abstract Battlers poetry ( dagong shige 打工詩歌), a genre whose name has mostly been rendered in English as “migrant worker poetry” to date, presents an important development in Chinese literature since the 2000s. Written by members of a new precariat that plays a key role...

...Hazel Shu Chen Abstract In 1950s and early 1960s Hong Kong, radio permeated in everyday life as a major source of entertainment and information. It subsequently gave rise to a peculiar genre in Cantonese cinema, film adaptations of “airwave novels” ( tiankong xiaoshuo dianying 天空小說電影), which...

... series as the mainstream. The article then examines a major genre of web drama: stories set in traditional China. While costume drama or period drama, whether based on history or fiction, has always been popular, classicist web drama series in recent years stand out for their authenticity and creativity...

...David Der-wei Wang Abstract This article seeks to analyze the contested conditions of modern and contemporary Chinese utopia, as a political treatise, a literary genre, and a social imaginary. It takes a historical perspective from which to describe the rise of utopia in the late Qing era...

... (played by Maggie Cheung) and memories of Old and New Shanghai (both enacted by Zhao Tao), his screen images and sounds enter a constant circulation and form an intriguing multidirectional dialogue across a variety of media and genres: cinema, art photography, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and star...

... of fictional genre to enlighten the reading public. Yet their “education of the novel” was far from complete, as New Literature writers found fictional expressions primarily in the form of the short story, with strong undertones of individualism, subjective lyricism, and elitism. By focusing on Mao Dun's 茅盾...

...Zhaokun Xin Abstract Li Yu's two huaben stories, “A Male Mencius's Mother Raises Her Son Properly by Moving House Three Times” and “House of Gathered Refinements,” stand out from the writer's brief yet highly novel dabbling in the genre thanks to their similar concern with male same-sex desire...

... author as the “face” of an entire genre, in this case Zheng Xiaoqiong. Next, it proposes the notion of hypertranslatability, and it shows how this helps explain the ubiquity of Zheng in foreign work on battler poetry to date. The article mostly dwells on material in English, but the subject matter...

...Martin Svensson Ekström Abstract The author argues that the Greek tradition of ekphrasis and the Chinese genre of fu 賦 share at least two essential characteristics: they are devoted to exhaustive descriptions and are manifestly nonmetaphorical. The six texts under scrutiny—Mei Sheng's fu poem “Qi...

.... These authors find speculative fiction a fruitful genre for combining Western literary techniques and material gleaned from Philippine myth and folklore. References Alip, Eufronio M. The Chinese in Manila . Manila : National Historical Institute , 1993 . Botting, Fred , and Justin D. Edwards...

... opera film as continuing the tradition of experimenting with the White Snake theme, using the genres of local opera and opera film, and special and visual effects enabled by the newest technology. It then moves to a close reading of a series of danmu , anonymous live comments on the Cantonese opera film...

... in the collection, this article illustrates how classical Chinese xiangyan poetry was evolving in the global context at the turn of the twentieth century. Although Zhou was not a poet engaging in the genre itself, through critical intervention, he connected Chinese xiangyan poetry to the global discourse of love...

...–based multi-genre artist Danny Yung of Zuni Icosahedron and his long-term work with Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion (1598) illustrate the multiple dimensions of xiqu 2.0. Representative productions include the digital Kun opera Sigmund Freud in Search of Chinese Matter and Mind (2002, 2016) and the series...

... and the Emergence of Science Fiction . Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press , 2012 . Suvin, Darko . Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 1979 . 1 Csicsery-Ronay, “Science Fiction and Empire” ; Kerslake...

... Kai 詹塏 (1861?–1911?), both novelists who wrote about themes related to social reforms; second, the Wei family, the main characters in a novel of Zhan Xi's; and third, as referring to a “ ‘family’ of genres that helped to shape the reformist novels of Zhan Kai” (8). Chapter 1 introduces the members...

.... Chinese authors who adopted Malay also typically embraced its literary aesthetics. Popular genres such as the sair and pantoen frequently show up in Sino-Malay newspapers and novels. They were also published separately or compiled with short stories or other poems. Narrative poetry could be read...

... The official English name of this society is simply Chinese Poetry Society, but it may lead to confusion, as it implies coverage of all genres of premodern and modern Chinese poetry. I thus add the Shici modifier to the names of all such publications and societies. 13 Dai, “ Zhonghua shici ,” 41–43...