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Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Sound Rising from the Paper NineteenthCentury Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination - Harvard East Asian Monographs
Author: Paize Keulemans
Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in colorful dialect accents, vendor calls ring out from bustling marketplaces, and martial arts action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords and the sounds of bodies colliding. What is the purpose of the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674417120
ISBN-10: 0674417127
Publication Date: 11/24/2014
Pages: 370
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Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Book Type: Hardcover
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