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BL
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648980
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Liu, Petrus.
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| Title & Author
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Stateless subjects : : Chinese martial arts literature and postcolonial history /\ Petrus Liu.
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| Publication Statement
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Ithaca, N.Y. :: Cornell East Asia Program,, c2011.
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| Series Statement
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Cornell East Asia series ;; 162
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x, 264 p. ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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9781933947822 (alk. paper)
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: 1933947829 (alk. paper)
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: 9781933947624 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1933947624 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-259) and index.
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| Contents
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The vicissitudes of anticolonial nationalism -- Women and martial arts : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon's marital, martial, and Marxian problems -- The permanent arms economy : Jin Yong's historical fiction and the Cold War in Asia -- Jin Yong's Islam in the Chinese Cultural Revolution -- A tale of two Chinas : Gu Long and anomalous colonies.
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| Abstract
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Provides a historical and political interpretation of the martial arts novel, making a case for the importance and significance of the genre and relating it to movements such as the Ming desire to overthrow the Qing, anticolonial nationalism of the 1920s, the Cold War, and the rise of Taiwanese consciousness.
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Martial arts fiction, Chinese-- History and criticism.
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Chinese fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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