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War and modernity in Chinese military fiction

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Peter Li is professor of Asian Studies and comparative literature at Rutgers University. He is editor of East Asia: An International Quarterly (formerly the Journal of Northeast Asian Studies). An earlier version of this essay was presented at the International Conference on “China's Perception of War and Peace,” at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna.

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Li, P. War and modernity in Chinese military fiction. Soc 34, 77–89 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-997-1043-0

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