Sheng-Mei Ma: Chinese Serial, Gebunden

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Chinese Serial explores a major trope in Chinese literature-cannibalism-from its origins in the 14th-century Chinese novel and Lu Xun's influential deployment in the early-20th century, to the sublimations of Chinese political history and East-West encounter in the many Detective Dee television serials.

Beginning with one of the four classical Chinese novels, Monkey , and extending to modern and contemporary Chinese literature and television series, the ten chapters, referred to as courses, form a "feast" that offers something for various readers. Additionally, it engages with Taiwanese history and cultural production-from Wu Zhuoliu's Orphan of Asia to Yang Shuang-zi's Taiwan Travelogue -presenting a dialectical account of its continuities with Chinese literary traditions as well as its unassimilability into those traditions.

This book is timely and probes into the centuries-long Chinese "man-eat-man" tradition. It spans the 16th-century classic chapter novel Monkey , the turn-of-the-last-century Lu Xun and Wu Zhuoliu, the surreal horror of Yu Hua and Fruit Chan, the oc / cult in Detective Dee, Asian North American self-Orientalizing, Taiwan's Nipponophilia, and finally the Sino-noir of serial killers in TV series.