The Development of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction(English, Hardcover, Pingyuan Chen)

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The Development of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction(English, Hardcover, Pingyuan Chen) is written by Pingyuan Chen and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107069882 (ISBN 10) and 9781107069886 (ISBN 13).

Chen Pingyuan is one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese literature, known particularly for his work on wuxia, a popular and influential genre of historical martial arts fiction still celebrated around the world today. This work, presented here in English translation for the first time, is considered to be the seminal work on the evolution, aesthetics and politics of the modern Chinese wuxia novel in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tracing the resurgence of interest in classical chivalric tales in China.