Background
Kinkley, Jeffrey C. was born on July 13, 1948 in Urbana, Illinois, United States. Son of Harold Vernon and Emily Jane (Robinson) Kinkley.
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As China's centrally planned economy and welfare state have given way to a more loosely controlled version of "late socialism," public concern about economic reform's downside has found expression in epic novels about official corruption and its effects. While the media shied away from dealing with these issues, novelists stepped in to fill the void. "Anti-corruption fiction" exploded onto the marketplace and into public consciousness, spawning popular films and television series until a clampdown after 2002 that ended China's first substantial realist fiction since the 1989 Beijing massacre. With frankness and imagination seldom allowed journalists, novelists have depicted the death of China's rust-belt industries, the gap between rich and poor, "social unrest"—i.e., riots—and the questionable new practices of entrenched communist party rulers. Corruption and Realism examines this rebirth of the Chinese political novel and its media adaptations, explaining how the works reflect contemporary Chinese life and how they embody Chinese traditions of social criticism, literary realism, and contemplation of taboo subjects. This is the first book to investigate such novels and includes excerpts from personal interviews with China's three most famous anticorruption novelists.
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During the first thirty years under communism, China completely banned crime fiction. After Mao, however, crime genres of all kindsold and new, Chinese and Westernsprang up in profusion. Crime narrative again became one of the most prolific and best-loved forms of Chinese popular culture, and it often embodied the Chinese people’s most trenchant and open critiques of their newly restored socialist legal system. This is the first full-length study in any language of Chinese crime fiction in all eras: ancient, modern, and contemporary. It is also the first book to apply legal scholars’ law and literature” inquiry to the rich field of Chinese legal and literary culture. Familiar Holmesian, quintessentially Chinese, and bizarre East-West hybrids of plots, crimes, detectives, judges, suspects, and ideas of law and corruption emerge from the pages of China’s new crime fiction, which is alternately embraced and condemned by the Chinese establishment as it lurches uncertainly toward post-communist society. Informed by contemporary comparative and theoretical perspectives on popular culture and the fiction of crime and detection, this book is based on extensive readings of Chinese crime fiction and interviewsin China and abroadwith the communist regime’s exiled and still-in-power security and judicial officers. It was in the Orwellian year of 1984 that the authorities set out to control China’s crime fiction and even to manufacture it themselvesonly to find that fiction, like the social phenomena it depicts, seems destined to remain one step ahead of the law.
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Kinkley, Jeffrey C. was born on July 13, 1948 in Urbana, Illinois, United States. Son of Harold Vernon and Emily Jane (Robinson) Kinkley.
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1969; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1977.
Lecturer Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977-1979. Assistant professor St. John's University, New York City, 1979-1986, associate professor, 1986-1993, professor, since 1993. Visiting professor Columbia University, 1997, chairman modern China seminar, New York, 1987-1988, member editorial board Twentieth-Century, China, since 1988, C.L.E.A.R., since 1989, Modern China, since 2000, Journal of Asian Pacific Communications, since 2000, Persimmon, 2001^.
Assistant editor The Journal of Asian Studies, 1991-1994.
( As China's centrally planned economy and welfare state ...)
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( During the first thirty years under communism, China co...)
Member Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association.
Married Chuchu Kang, May 16, 1981 (divorced Jan 30, 2009). 1 child, Matthew; Married Susan Elizabeth Corliss, July 11, 2009.
