Free Download Jeffrey C. Kinkley, "China Mysteries: Crime Novels from China's Others"
English | ISBN: 0824895207 | 2023 | 224 pages | EPUB, PDF | 963 KB + 13 MB
With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educational exchanges. There was even talk in the mainstream press that China was heading toward a more democratic future. It was during this second Sino-Western honeymoon that authors in the US, Canada, France, the UK, and elsewhere began writing mystery fiction set in contemporary China in their regional languages. These "China mysteries"―crime, detective, and mystery thriller novels that take place in China but were not written or published there―formed a new genre of popular fiction that highlighted the world's hopes and fears after Tiananmen. The multinational and multicultural writers of China mysteries, among them ex-PRC nationals like Qiu Xiaolong, Zhang Xinxin, and Diane Wei Liang, converged on the China Mainland to negotiate political and cultural complexities through crime fiction Descriptionlines. Their books emerged from Western lineages of the modern novel and popular genre fiction―with Chinese contributions―and depended on Western commercial publishing models shaped by cultural, national, political, and economic factors.