How Long to Read Fin-de-Siècle Splendor

How Long Does it Take to Read Fin-de-Siècle Splendor?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 40 minutes to read Fin-de-Siècle Splendor by Dewei Wang

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

Description

The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient modernities. It demonstrates that late Qing fiction nurtured a creative, innovative poetics, one that was spurned by the reformers of the May Fourth generation in favor of Western-style realism. The author recognizes that a full account of modern Chinese fiction needs to ask why so many genres, styles, themes, and figures found in late imperial fiction were repressed by "modern" Chinese literary discourse. He focuses on four genres of late Qing fiction that have been either rudely dismissed in pejorative terms or simply ignored: depravity romances, court-case and chivalric cycles, grotesque exposés, and scientific fantasies. The author shows that in spite of the realist orthodoxy that has dominated Chinese literature since the May Fourth movement, these unwelcome genres have continually found their way back into mainstream discourse, their influence being increasingly evident in recent decades. This first comprehensive study of late Qing fiction discusses more than sixty works, at least half of which have rarely or never been dealt with by Western or Chinese scholars. Richly informed by contemporary literary theory, this book constitutes a polemical rethinking of the nature of Chinese literary and cultural modernity.

How long is Fin-de-Siècle Splendor?

Fin-de-Siècle Splendor by Dewei Wang is 460 pages long, and a total of 115,000 words.

This makes it 155% the length of the average book. It also has 141% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fin-de-Siècle Splendor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 28 minutes to read Fin-de-Siècle Splendor aloud.

What Reading Level is Fin-de-Siècle Splendor?

Fin-de-Siècle Splendor is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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