LEADER 04172nam 22005775 450 001 9910735397303321 005 20240724103417.0 010 $a9783030890353$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030890346 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-89035-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6838938 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6838938 035 $a(CKB)20275216700041 035 $a(OCoLC)1292360787 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-89035-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920275216700041 100 $a20211203d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Adventures of Ma Suzhen $e'An Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai' /$fby Paul Bevan 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (144 pages) 225 1 $aEast Asian Popular Culture,$x2634-5943 311 08$aPrint version: Bevan, Paul The Adventures of Ma Suzhen Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 9783030890346 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aChapter 1. Translator's Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: Cast of Characters -- Chapter 3. The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: An Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai -- Chapter 4. A Hero of the Women's Realm, Ma Suzhen, an Essay. 330 $aIf you love wuxia ("knight-errant" tales), this book is an absolute must-read. Charming and delightfully humorous, it follows the adventures and bloodstained justice of the effervescent heroine, Ma Suzhen. Bevan's superb writing style and helpful introduction make this a wonderful initiation into Chinese Republican popular fiction and the world of wuxia. Dr Amy Matthewson, author of Cartooning China: 'Punch', Power, and Politics in the Victorian Era. Part newspaper shocker, part fact, part invention and many miles from The Dream of the Red Chamber, this is the sort of story people loved to read in early-twentieth-century China - an exciting and amusing example of truly popular Chinese fiction. Dr Frances Wood, retired curator of the Chinese Collections in the British Library and author of many books, including Great Books of China(2017). The comic novel, TheAdventures of Ma Suzhen, was written during a highpoint in the popularity of xia "knight-errant" fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her brother, Ma Yongzhen, a gangster and performing strongman, who has been murdered by a rival gang in China's most cosmopolitan city, Shanghai. After publication of the book in 1923, the character of Ma Suzhen appeared on stage, and subsequently in a film made by the Mingxing Film Company. The book version translated here, displays a delightful combination of the xia and popular"Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies" genres, with additional elements of Gong'an "court case" fiction. The translation is followed by an essay that explores the background to the legend of Ma Suzhen - a fictional figure, whose exhilarating escapades reflect some of the new possibilities and freedoms available to women following the founding of the Chinese Republic. Dr Paul Bevan is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. His current research addresses a variety of themes concerning popular fiction and the visual arts as they appeared in periodicals and magazines published in Shanghai during the first decades of the twentieth century. 410 0$aEast Asian Popular Culture,$x2634-5943 606 $aEthnology$zAsia 606 $aCulture 606 $aOriental literature 606 $aAsian Culture 606 $aAsian Literature 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aOriental literature. 615 14$aAsian Culture. 615 24$aAsian Literature. 676 $a895.1351 676 $a895.1351 700 $aBevan$b Paul L. T.$01377635 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910735397303321 996 $aThe adventures of Ma Suzhen$93415146 997 $aUNINA