Out of the Margins. The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction

by Liangyan Ge

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Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2001. ix + 293pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, dustjacket. This multidimensional study considers the evolution of the novel 'Water Margin', China's earliest full-length narrative in vernacular prose, and the rise of vernacular fiction against background of the vernacularisation of premodern Chinese literature as a whole..... More

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