Chinese Killer King: trespassing the boundaries of crime fiction and Cantonese literature.
This essay introduces readers to a Cantonese writer, editor, and director, Yam Wu-Fa/Ren Huhua (?-1976), whose creative life peaked between the 1930s and the 1950s among a Cantonese-speaking readership across the Pacific. Pertinent to our discussion is his crime fiction series, Chinese Killer King (...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 36 - 52 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=161895624&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 161895624 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14649373 B8U jtl: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies issn: 14649373 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2023 vid: 24 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 161895624 10.1080/14649373.2023.2156117 ppf: 36 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Chinese Killer King: trespassing the boundaries of crime fiction and Cantonese literature. aug: au: Lam, Nga Li affil: Independent scholar su: Crime writing Literary characters Biggers, Earl Derr Borderlands Chinese literature sug: subj: Crime writing Literary characters Biggers, Earl Derr Borderlands Chinese literature keyword: Cantonese literature Chinese Killer King crime fiction hatchet man Hong Kong literature popular print culture saam kap dai Sinophone Sinosphere tong ab: This essay introduces readers to a Cantonese writer, editor, and director, Yam Wu-Fa/Ren Huhua (?-1976), whose creative life peaked between the 1930s and the 1950s among a Cantonese-speaking readership across the Pacific. Pertinent to our discussion is his crime fiction series, Chinese Killer King (zhongguo sharenwang). The Killer King, "Charlie Chiu"—not to be confused with Earl Derr Biggers's "Charlie Chan"—is a Cantonese borderland hero who derives from various references, both fictional and historical, addressing a cosmopolitan yet Cantonese imaginary. Overlooked, Yam and his works represent more than the marginalisation that is commonly experienced by Southernly "popular fictions" in a histography under an elitist and Shanghai-Beijing-centric framework. Chinese Killer King challenges the kind of place-bound identity politics evident in today's discussion on Hong Kong literature and Sinophone writings. The author hence explores the possibility of using "Cantonese literature" as a critical framework to historicise and theorise a Cantonese-ness and its border-crossing dimension and discusses how the series may be positioned among world crime fictions. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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