Insects in Chinese Literature: A Study and Anthology by Wilt L. Idema

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 78-81
Author(s):  
Huaiyu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Literature

On the Margins of Modernism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Rosenmeier
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Chinese Fiction ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Chinese Writing

Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Despite being an integral part of the Chinese literary scene, their bestselling fiction has, however, been given scant attention in histories of Chinese writing. This book is the first extensive study of Xu Xu and Wumingshi in English or any other Western language and it re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940s. Their romantic novels and short stories were often set abroad and featured a wide range of stereotypes, from pirates, spies and patriotic soldiers to ghosts, spirits and exotic women who confounded the mostly cosmopolitan male protagonists. Christopher Rosenmeier’s detailed analysis of these popular novels and short stories shows that such romances broke new ground by incorporating and adapting narrative techniques and themes from the Shanghai modernist writers of the 1930s, notably Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying. The study thereby contests the view that modernism had little lasting impact on Chinese fiction, and it demonstrates that the popular literature of the 1940s was more innovative than usually imagined, with authors, such as those studied here, successfully crossing the boundaries between the popular and the elite, as well as between romanticism and modernism, in their bestselling works.

Korean War in Chinese Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 347-386
Author(s):  
jeongho Shin
Keyword(s):  
Korean War ◽  
Chinese Literature

Neonatal maple syrup urine disease in China: two novel mutations in the BCKDHB gene and literature review

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong‐Hua Jiang ◽  
Yan Guo ◽  
Xian Shen ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
Ting-Ting Dai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Maple Syrup Urine Disease ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Brain Mri ◽  
Classical Type ◽  
Novel Mutations ◽  
Maple Syrup ◽  
Gene Testing ◽  
Urine Disease ◽  
Bckdhb Gene ◽  
Branched Chain

Abstract Objectives To report two novel mutations in the BCKDHB gene with Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) and compare their data with 52 cases of MSUD reported in the available Chinese literature. Methods Clinical data of a case of a newborn with MSUD was retrospectively studied. Literatures on MSUD in the local medical journals from January 1990 till December 2019 in China were reviewed. Results Two novel BCKDHB mutations c.90_91insCTGGCGCGGGG (p.Phe35TrpfsTer41) and c.80_90del (p.Ala32PhefsTer48) were identified. We found a total of 52 cases of MSUD reports so far. A total of 49 cases had the symptom of poor feeding (94.2%), 50 cases showed poor responses to stimulation (96.2%), 21 cases had odor of maple syrup (40.3%), 29 cases had seizures (55.7%), and 13 cases had respiratory failure (25.0%). The average of the blood ammonia was 127.2 ± 75.0 μmol/L. A total of 18 cases reported the gene testing, among of them 9 cases of BCKDHA mutations, 6 cases of BCKDHB mutations, and 2 cases of DBT mutations. A total of 13 cases (25%) were treated with mechanical ventilation, 50 cases (96.2%) with protein-restricted diet and l-carnitine, 29 cases with thiamine, and only 2 cases were treated with blood purification. Finally, 19 patients (36.5%) were died, 21 cases (40.4%) were improved after treatments. Conclusions The clinical phenotype of neonatal MSUD in China belongs to the classical type currently. Suspected patients should have blood or urine branched-chain amino acid levels tested and brain MRI as early as possible to enable early diagnosis, thus improvement in prognosis.

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