Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries is a 2004 book by Patrick Hanan, published by Columbia University Press. There are eleven essays total about the subject. They were created on separate dates, and are unrelated.Wang, p. 441. The book examines how trends in Chinese literature and in non-Chinese literature influenced the subject matter. The collection includes examinations of the concept of a narrator in the subject matter, including examinations of the narrator characters.Schneider, p. 71.

Hanan categorizes narrators as "personalized storyteller," "virtual author," "minimal narrator," and "involved author". These roles show a shift toward more restricted, first-person narration.

Reception

Géraldine Schneider of Harvard University wrote that the work "presents a significant contribution to scholarship not only on late imperial Chinese literature but also in the field of descriptive translation studies."Schneider, p. 72.

See also The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century Fin-de-Siècle Splendor

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External links Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries - Columbia University Press Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries - De Gruyter Brill