Detecting Chinese Modernities: Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction (1896-1949)

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In Detecting Chinese Modernities, Yan Wei assesses the rise and development of detective fiction in the first half of the twentieth century in China.


About the Author


Yan Wei, Ph.D. (2009), Harvard University, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese at Lingnan University. She has published many articles on modern Chinese literature, including "Detective Fiction, Cultural Meditations and Chinese Modernity," in
Crime Fiction as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2017).