The Rise of Modern Chinese Fiction

Author: Han Nan
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: I am willing to disregard my own modesty and introduce this professor and his character to the readers of China—especially the younger generation of students. I dare to transform myself into the "narrator" of this article, not to boast, but to make the readers feel a sense of familiarity, or to enter the academic hall of modern Chinese fiction research through my mediation. This book is a collection of essays by Han Nan, a renowned sinologist and professor at Harvard University in the United States, on modern Chinese fiction. It includes 10 articles (including an introduction). The articles focus on three major themes: 1. The technical creativity of Chinese novelists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; 2. The "involvement" of Westerners in Chinese fiction; 3. Early 20th-century romance novels. These issues have significant reference value for domestic literary research. Renowned scholar Leo Ou-fan Lee wrote the preface for this book. The book is also accompanied by numerous illustrations, making it a valuable historical reference.