Writing Pirates vernacular fiction and oceans in late Ming China

Connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. The book shows that the late Ming discourses of pirates and the sea were fluid, ambivalent, and dialogical; they simultaneously entailed imperialistic and personal narratives of the 'other': foreigners, ren...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wang, Yuanfei, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Michigan : University of Michigan Press 2021.
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Sumario:Connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. The book shows that the late Ming discourses of pirates and the sea were fluid, ambivalent, and dialogical; they simultaneously entailed imperialistic and personal narratives of the 'other': foreigners, renegades, migrants, and marginalized authors.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 218 pages)