How Long to Read Detecting Chinese Modernities

By Yan Wei

How Long Does it Take to Read Detecting Chinese Modernities?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 54 minutes to read Detecting Chinese Modernities by Yan Wei

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"In Detecting Chinese Modernities: Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction (1896-1949), Yan Wei historicizes the two stages in the development of Chinese detective fiction and discusses the rupture and continuity in the cultural transactions, mediation, and appropriation that occurred when the genre of detective fiction traveled to China during the first half of the twentieth century. Wei identifies two divergent, or even opposite strategies for appropriating Western detective fiction during the late Qing and the Republican periods. She further argues that these two periods in the domestication of detective fiction were also connected by shared emotions. Both periods expressed ambivalent and sometimes contradictory views regarding Chinese tradition and Western modernity"--

How long is Detecting Chinese Modernities?

Detecting Chinese Modernities by Yan Wei is 292 pages long, and a total of 73,584 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 90% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Detecting Chinese Modernities Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 42 minutes to read Detecting Chinese Modernities aloud.

What Reading Level is Detecting Chinese Modernities?

Detecting Chinese Modernities is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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