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Chinese Justice, the Fiction
Jeffrey C. Kinkley
其他書名
Law and Literature in Modern China
出版
Stanford University Press
, 2000
主題
Literary Collections / Asian / General
Literary Criticism / Asian / General
Literary Criticism / Asian / Chinese
ISBN
0804739765
9780804739764
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QD13egT65PMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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During the first thirty years under communism, China completely banned crime fiction. After Mao, however, crime genres of all kindsold and new, Chinese and Westernsprang 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 peoples 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 Chinas 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 interviewsin China and abroadwith the communist regimes exiled and still-in-power security and judicial officers. It was in the Orwellian year of 1984 that the authorities set out to control Chinas crime fiction and even to manufacture it themselvesonly to find that fiction, like the social phenomena it depicts, seems destined to remain one step ahead of the law.