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 marketplaces, and martial arts action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords and the sounds of bodies colliding. What is the purpose of these sounds, and what is their history? In Sound Rising from the Paper, Paize Keulemans answers these...

• 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"