During the first thirty years under communism, China completely banned crime fiction. After Mao, however, crime genres of all kinds-old and new, Chinese and Western-sprang up in profusion. Crime narrative again became one of the most prolific and best-loved forms of Chinese popular culture, and it often embodied the Chinese people's most trenchant and open critiques of their newly restored socialist legal system.This is the first full-length study in any language of Chinese crime fiction in all eras: ancient, modern, and contemporary. It is also the first book to apply legal scholars' "law and literature" inquiry to the rich field of Chinese legal and literary culture. Familiar Holmesian, quintessentially Chinese, and bizarre East-West hybrids of plots, crimes, detectives, judges, suspects, and ideas of law and corruption emerge from the pages of China's new crime fiction, which is alternately embraced and condemned by the Chinese establishment as it lurches uncertainly toward post-communist society.Informed by contemporary comparative and theoretical perspectives on popular culture and the fiction of crime and detection, this book is based on extensive readings of Chinese crime fiction and interviews-in China and abroad-with the communist regime's exiled and still-in-power security and judicial officers. It was in the Orwellian year of 1984 that the authorities set out to control China's crime fiction and even to manufacture it themselves-only to find that fiction, like the social phenomena it depicts, seems destined to remain one step ahead of the law.
    北大图书馆索书号:I206.7/K621
 
        
1 有用 momo 2017-04-19 05:06:45
读的是corruption and realism in late socialist china
0 有用 最近喜欢灰蓝 2024-04-27 07:41:48 美国
主要關注在80年代之後的或者叫post-mao時期的偵探/警察/公案小說,和我要寫的關係不大;文獻學研究部分也沒有很多的相關參考;好厚的書