"This book intensifies the dialogue between Chinese fiction and world literature by focusing on a common literary idiom, the detail. Noting how the detail plays a crucial role in evoking the poetics of realism across genres and cultural contexts, the book analyzes a key series of Chinese fictional works from centuries past to trace a long and distinctive tradition of detail-driven literary writing"-- Provided by publisher.
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