Please join us for Jeffrey Kinkley's book talk: China Mysteries: Crime Novels from China's Others.
"China Mysteries" are crime novels set in contemporary China, written by authors outside mainland China, escaping censorship issues.
The genre emerged after the 1989 Tianamen Square protests, during a period of increased openness between China and the West. Authors include writers from various countries, including some ex-PRC nationals. The novels explore China's political and cultural complexities through crime fiction. Kinkley's book examines how these novels portray social and economic changes in China, examines their literary elements, and discusses the role of "information" in popular fiction.
Like the book, the Q & A session will be open to the speaker's and audience's comparative comments regarding twentieth and twenty-first century mystery fiction written in Chinese in the China Mainland and Taiwan.
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