Variations on gui and the Trouble with Ghosts in Modern Chinese Fiction

Ghosts appear in a great number of fictional works from the early modern period to the present. Yet, to this date no systematic study of this very heterogeneous textual corpus has been undertaken. This paper proposes as a useful starting point a review of figures and discourses of spectrality, mainl...

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Published in:Asiatische Studien Vol. 70; no. 3; pp. 865 - 880
Main Author: Imbach, Jessica
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
French
German
Published: Bern De Gruyter 01.09.2016
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subjects:
Discourses
Fiction
ghost fiction
Ghosts
history
literary discourse
modern Chinese fiction
Secularism
ISSN:0004-4717, 2235-5871
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Summary:Ghosts appear in a great number of fictional works from the early modern period to the present. Yet, to this date no systematic study of this very heterogeneous textual corpus has been undertaken. This paper proposes as a useful starting point a review of figures and discourses of spectrality, mainly in Republican-era literary and critical texts, that focuses in particular on the different meanings and usages of the term , “ghosts”. A better understanding of helps us not only to distinguish different approaches towards spectral figures, which do not necessarily always operate on a secular-religious binary, but also brings the entangled dynamics of the aesthetic and the political in modern Chinese ghost fiction into sharper focus.
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ISSN:0004-4717
2235-5871
DOI:10.1515/asia-2015-1013