Out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction by Liangyan Ge

Out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction

Liangyan Ge

306 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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The novel Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan), China's earliest full-length narrative in vernacular prose, first appeared in print in the sixteenth century. The tale of one hundred and eight bandit heroes evolved from a long oral tradition; in its noveliz...

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