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Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Paize Keulemans
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Hardcover. Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are full of suggestive sounds. Characters curse in colorful dialect accents, and action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords. Paize Keulemans examines the relationship between these novels and earlier storyteller manuscripts to explain the purpose and history of these sounds. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 370 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 231 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in colorful dialect accents, vendor calls ring out from bustling marketplaces, and martial arts action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords and the sounds of bodies colliding. What is the purpose of these sounds, and what is their history? In Sound Rising from the Paper, Paize Keulemans answers these questions by critically reexamining the relationship between martial arts novels published in the final decades of the nineteenth century and earlier storyteller manuscripts. He finds that ... Read more
Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in colorful dialect accents, vendor calls ring out from bustling marketplaces, and martial arts action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords and the sounds of bodies colliding. What is the purpose of these sounds, and what is their history? In Sound Rising from the Paper, Paize Keulemans answers these questions by critically reexamining the relationship between martial arts novels published in the final decades of the nineteenth century and earlier storyteller manuscripts. He finds that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition
New
Weight
612g
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674417120
SKU
V9780674417120
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About Paize Keulemans
Paize Keulemans is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University.
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