Catherine Vance Yeh, "The Chinese Political Novel: Migration of a World Genre "English | ISBN: 0674504356 | 2015 | 442 pages | PDF | 12 MB
The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the nation's political future. It offers a characterization of the present, a blueprint of the future, and the image of the heroes needed to get there. With the standing it gained during its meteoric rise, the political novel helped elevate the novel altogether to become the leading literary genre of the twentieth century worldwide.