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The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: 'An Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai' de Paul Bevan

The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: 'An Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai': East Asian Popular Culture

Autor Paul Bevan
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The comic novel, The Adventures of Ma Suzhen, was written during a highpoint in the popularity of xia “knight-errant” fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her brother, Ma Yongzhen, a gangster and performing strongman, who has been murdered by a rival gang in China’s most cosmopolitan city, Shanghai. After publication of the book in 1923, the character of Ma Suzhen appeared on stage, and subsequently in a film made by the Mingxing Film Company. The book version translated here, displays a delightful combination of the xia and popular“Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies” genres, with additional elements of Gong’an “court case” fiction. The translation is followed by an essay that explores the background to the legend of Ma Suzhen – a fictional figure, whose exhilarating escapades reflect some of the new possibilities and freedoms available to women following the founding of the Chinese Republic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030890377
ISBN-10: 3030890376
Pagini: 131
Ilustrații: XIX, 131 p. 6 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria East Asian Popular Culture

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1. ​Translator’s Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: Cast of Characters.- Chapter 3. The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: An Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai.- Chapter 4. A Hero of the Women’s Realm, Ma Suzhen, an Essay.

Recenzii

“Seeing injustice, Ma Suzhen does her best to right it, in fairly dramatic fashion (often with a bit of a comic touch to it as well). … Bevan's supporting apparatus and especially his afterword-essay provide a good deal of information and context, making for a more interesting whole. … It's neat to see a piece of 1920s popular Chinese literature like this -- far too little is available in translation … .” (M.A.Orthofer, complete-review.com, March 9, 2022)

Notă biografică

Paul Bevan is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. From 2018 to 2020 he worked as Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting at the Ashmolean Museum. Paul has taught modern Chinese literature, history, and visual culture at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). His primary research interests concern the impact of Western art and literature on China during the Republican Period (1912-1949), particularly with regard to periodicals and magazines. His research on artists George Grosz, Frans Masereel, and Miguel Covarrubias, all of whom worked for Vanity Fair, has resulted in extensive research on both Chinese and Western pictorial magazines. Paul’s first book A Modern Miscellany - Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938, Leiden: Brill, 2015, was hailed as “a major contribution to modern Chinese studies”; hissecond: “Intoxicating Shanghai”: Modern Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines during Shanghai’s Jazz Age was published by Brill in April 2020.

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If you love wuxia (“knight-errant” tales), this book is an absolute must-read. Charming and delightfully humorous, it follows the adventures and bloodstained justice of the effervescent heroine, Ma Suzhen. Bevan’s superb writing style and helpful introduction make this a wonderful initiation into Chinese Republican popular fiction and the world of wuxia. Dr Amy Matthewson, author of Cartooning China: ‘Punch’, Power, and Politics in the Victorian Era.
Part newspaper shocker, part fact, part invention and many miles from The Dream of the Red Chamber, this is the sort of story people loved to read in early-twentieth-century China – an exciting and amusing example of truly popular Chinese fiction. 
Dr Frances Wood, retired curator of the Chinese Collections in the British Library and author of many books, including Great Books of China(2017).


The comic novel, TheAdventures of Ma Suzhen, was written during a highpoint in the popularity of xia “knight-errant” fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her brother, Ma Yongzhen, a gangster and performing strongman, who has been murdered by a rival gang in China’s most cosmopolitan city, Shanghai. After publication of the book in 1923, the character of Ma Suzhen appeared on stage, and subsequently in a film made by the Mingxing Film Company. The book version translated here, displays a delightful combination of the xia and popular“Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies” genres, with additional elements of Gong’an “court case” fiction. The translation is followed by an essay that explores the background to the legend of Ma Suzhen – a fictional figure, whose exhilarating escapades reflect some of the new possibilities and freedoms available to women following the founding of the Chinese Republic.
Dr Paul Bevan is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. His current research addresses a variety of themes concerning popular fiction and the visual arts as they appeared in periodicals and magazines published in Shanghai during the first decades of the twentieth century.

Caracteristici

Presents the first English translation of 'The Adventures of Ma Suzhen', an exciting, all-action novel published in 1920s Shanghai Features an illuminating academic essay that contextualises the comic tale, and reveals its multiple lives as a stage play, film and novel Contributes to the growing interest in martial arts and ‘knight-errant’ novels worldwide, while feeding into the general reading public’s increasing demand for books in this genre in English translation