The Chinese Historical Novel
An Outline of Themes and Contexts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3665707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y W Ma |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 277 |
| Publication date | 1975-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2052749 |
| OpenAlex | W2016127402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
In China, as in the West, fiction is a late development in the literary scene and serious fiction criticism is correspondingly a recent endeavor. The similarity goes further in the case of the historical novel, which critics of Chinese and Western fiction alike have either consciously avoided or customarily regarded with critical disfavor. In the Chinese case, the San-Kuo chih yen-i (The Three Kingdoms) is the only historical novel which has received constant serious attention, but many of its features are exceptions rather than rules.2 One will look in vain for anything as essential as a general survey of elements basic to works of this genre.3 For a genre so numerically significant, the unavoidable sketchiness of such a preliminary outline as the present one may be compensated for by a selective coverage. Here the main concerns are the most important themes and certain related contextual characteristics
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Similarity (geometry) · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · History · Philosophy
Studies in Chinese Literary Genres
Studies in Chinese Literature
The Communists and Chinese Peasant Rebellions
The Transformations of Messianic Revolt and the Founding of the Ming Dynasty
The Chan-Kuo Ts'e and Its Fiction
Desultory Notes On the Hsi-Yang Chi
Some Limitations of Chinese Fiction
The Chinese World Order. Traditional China ́s Foreign Relations
Chinese Fiction
Yüeh Fei (1103-41) and China's Heritage of Loyalty
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 1994 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |