Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination

by Paize Keulemans

Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in colorful dialect accents, vendor calls ring out from bustling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674417127
• ISBN13: 9780674417120
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"