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Detecting Chinese Modernities
In Detecting Chinese Modernities: Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction (1896–1949), Yan Wei historicizes the two stages in the development of Chinese detective fiction and discusses the rupture and continuity in the cultural transactions, mediation, and appropriation that occurred when the genre of detective fiction traveled to China during the first half of the twentieth century. Wei identifies two divergent, or even opposite strategies for appropriating Western detective fiction during the late Qing and the Republican periods. She further argues that these two periods in the domestication of detective fiction were also connected by shared emotions. Both periods expressed ambivalent and sometimes contradictory views regarding Chinese tradition and Western modernity.
The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik
From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty. In addition to providing the setting for riveting mysteries, Dee's world highlighted aspects of traditional Chinese culture through his personal relationships with his wives, his lieutenants and the citizens he served with dedication on the emperor's behalf. This book gives a synopsis of each Judge Dee story, along with commentary on plots, characters, themes and historical details. Exploring van Gulik's influence on Chinese and Western detective fiction and on the image of China in popular 20th century American literature, this study brings to light a significant contributor to the development of detective fiction.
Sherlock Magazine 39
RIVISTA - La scuola del priorato - Huo Sang, l'Holmes cinese - Vita di Sherlock Holmes Il racconto che in questo numero viene ospitato da "Sherlock Magazine" è di Marco Paracchini e si intitola "La setta degli sciacalli". Lontano dalla nebbia londinese e dal suo infaticabile amico e biografo, Sherlock Holmes affronta un antagonista fuori dagli schemi canonici in un territorio ostile e sinistro. Un'avventura orrorifica che vede Sherlock Holmes scoprire la terrificante Setta degli Sciacalli! Oltre alla narrativa, si approfondiscono la vita del grande detective, il racconto canonico "La scuola del priorato", Huo Sang, ovvero l'Holmes cinese, e il pastiche "Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dra...
Sherlock Magazine 38
RIVISTA (96 pagine) - Le donne del Canone; Holmes compagno di viaggio; Sherlock Holmes nel mondo gotico di Dracula; racconti di Antonella Mecenero e Alain Voudì Questa volta il nostro viaggio parte da molto più lontano del solito, ovvero dalla Cina e da Hou Sang, il cosiddetto Sherlock Holmes cinese, messo a fuoco da Valentina Chioma. Per la parte degli approfondimenti trovano anche spazio Enrico Solito, Milo Julini, Massimiliano de Luca e Maria Cristina Tamagnini che approcciano gli argomenti sherlockiani in modo da soddisfare sia i fan più esperti sia coloro che si vogliono avvicinare al Grande Detective per la prima volta. Abbiamo poi le consuete rubriche di recensioni librarie e l'Oss...
Sherlock Magazine 43
rivista (92 pagine) - Sintesi delle opere di Agatha Christie - Disamina dei “Sei Napoleoni” - I fumetti Sherlockiani - Huo Sang: l’Holmes cinese - Basil Rathbone Ennesimo numero della nostra rivista ricco di saggistica. Proseguiamo la serie di articoli su Huo Sang (l’Holmes cinese), analizziamo in sintesi le opere di Agatha Christie, studiamo la polizia scientifica ai tempi di Sherlock Holmes, approfondiamo il racconto canonico I sei Napoleoni e mettiamo a fuoco l’attore Basil Rathbone. E poi facciamo un viaggio nei comics holmesiani britannici, per chiudere questa parte con l’articolo Arthur e Oscar: un incontro importante. Per la narrativa scopriamo invece cosa è accaduto a Sh...
Sherlock Magazine 40
rivistaSintesi delle opere della grande Agatha Christie - Le filosofie di Sherlock Holmes - Il bagaglio culturale di Sherlock Holmes Il racconto ospitato da Sherlock Magazine 40 è opera di Samuele Nava, l’ottimo apocrifista noto ai nostri lettori che questa volta ci propone una oscura trama criminale che lega clamorosi attentati rivoluzionari e dolci note di antichi violini italiani. Alla narrativa fa eco la parte degli approfondimenti, che ci presenta una sintesi delle opere della grande Agatha Christie, ci propone gli articoli Le filosofie di Sherlock Holmes, Il bagaglio culturale di Sherlock Holmes, la disamina del racconto canonico L’avventura di Black Peter, e prosegue con un nuovo...
Cheng Xiaoqing (1893-1976) and His Detective Stories in Modern Shanghai
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 1998 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Chinese / China, grade: 1, University of Hamburg, language: English, abstract: Cheng Xiaoqing, the author of the Huo Sang cases, was one of the most prolific and successful Chinese detective fiction authors of the so-called Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School." In China, Western detective fiction was introduced at the turn of the 19th century. Cheng Xiaoqing was among the first Chinese authors to not only translate, but also create original works in the genre. The author adopted the main framework of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes case - the very standard of the classical Western detective story - and created the "Eastern...
A Dinner at Poplar Walk
Complete and unabridged paperback edition. First Published 1833
The Language of Abuse
The Language of Abuse provides the first comprehensive examination of marital violence in later medieval England. Drawing from a wide variety of legal and literary sources, this book develops a nuanced perspective of the acceptability of marital violence at a time when social expectations of gender and marriage were in transition. As such, Butler’s work contributes to current debates concerning the role of the jury, levels of violence in late medieval England, the power relationship within marriage, and the position of women in medieval society.
Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe
The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources. The contributors examine how money and changing attitudes toward wealth affected power relations between women and men of all ranks, especially the patriarchal social forces that constrained the range of women s economic choices. Employing theories on gender, culture, and power, this volume reveals wealth as both the motive force in gender relations and a precise indicator of other, more subtle, forms of power and influence mediated by gender.
