E-Books →Lost Voices of Modernity A Chinese Popular Fiction Magazine in Context

By placing publication, contributions, and contributors within their specific cultural, social, and political contexts, Gimpel provides an astonishingly cogent picture of a reform-through-fiction project created and managed by a dedicated body of writers attempting to address the concerns of the day. Xiaoshuo yuebao informed the growing reading public of national and international issues, science, and foreign lands. Read in context, the stories, essays, plays, and poems published in its pages-largely in the form of the "new fiction" that had been hailed as the sociopolitical cure-all of the early twentieth century-constitute a panorama of the reforms being discussed at the time at all levels of public and private life.