Petrus Liu
Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.
East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2011. The Cornell East Asia series, 162. 9781933947822 x/264 pages.
Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new.
Provides a historical and political interpretation of the martial arts novel, making a case for the importance and significance of the genre and relating it to movements such as the Ming desire to overthrow the Qing, anticolonial nationalism of the 1920s, the Cold War, and the rise of Taiwanese consciousness.