Author: Shaogong Han
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231127448
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A fictionalized account of the author's experiences growing up in a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution.
A Dictionary of Maqiao
Author: Shaogong Han
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231127448
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A fictionalized account of the author's experiences growing up in a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231127448
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A fictionalized account of the author's experiences growing up in a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution.
The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel
Author: Michael Sollars
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 957
Book Description
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 957
Book Description
Remapping the Past
Author: Howard Yuen Fung Choy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004167048
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This study investigates how writers of Deng Xiaopinga (TM)s China undermined the grand narrative of official history by rewriting the past. It showcases fictions of history by eleven Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004167048
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This study investigates how writers of Deng Xiaopinga (TM)s China undermined the grand narrative of official history by rewriting the past. It showcases fictions of history by eleven Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography.
Global Elements in Chinese Literature
Author: Sihe Chen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004522972
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Global Elements in Chinese Literature illustrates how modern Chinese writers have assimilated and transformed key movements of Western literature to develop their own unique forms of expression in order to confront the problems facing humanity today.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004522972
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Global Elements in Chinese Literature illustrates how modern Chinese writers have assimilated and transformed key movements of Western literature to develop their own unique forms of expression in order to confront the problems facing humanity today.
The Great Wall
Author: Julia Lovell
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 155584832X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A “gripping, colorful” history of China’s Great Wall that explores the conquests and cataclysms of the empire from 1000 BC to the present day (Publishers Weekly). Over two thousand years old, the Great Wall of China is a symbolic and physical dividing line between the civilized Chinese and the “barbarians” at their borders. Historian Julia Lovell looks behind the intimidating fortification and its mythology to uncover a complex history far more fragmented and less illustrious that its crowds of visitors imagine today. Lovell’s story winds through the lives of the millions of individuals who built and attacked it, and recounts how succeeding dynasties built sections of the wall as defenses against the invading Huns, Mongols, and Turks, and how the Ming dynasty, in its quest to create an empire, joined the regional ramparts to make what the Chinese call the “10,000 Li” or the “long wall.” An epic that reveals the true history of a nation, The Great Wall is “a supremely inviting entrée to the country” and essential reading for anyone who wants to understand China’s past, present, and future (Booklist).
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 155584832X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A “gripping, colorful” history of China’s Great Wall that explores the conquests and cataclysms of the empire from 1000 BC to the present day (Publishers Weekly). Over two thousand years old, the Great Wall of China is a symbolic and physical dividing line between the civilized Chinese and the “barbarians” at their borders. Historian Julia Lovell looks behind the intimidating fortification and its mythology to uncover a complex history far more fragmented and less illustrious that its crowds of visitors imagine today. Lovell’s story winds through the lives of the millions of individuals who built and attacked it, and recounts how succeeding dynasties built sections of the wall as defenses against the invading Huns, Mongols, and Turks, and how the Ming dynasty, in its quest to create an empire, joined the regional ramparts to make what the Chinese call the “10,000 Li” or the “long wall.” An epic that reveals the true history of a nation, The Great Wall is “a supremely inviting entrée to the country” and essential reading for anyone who wants to understand China’s past, present, and future (Booklist).
Mulberry and Peach
Author: Hualing Nie
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558611825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A brilliantly crafted picaresque novel, sensual, harrowing and even comic, of an Asian-American woman's exile
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558611825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A brilliantly crafted picaresque novel, sensual, harrowing and even comic, of an Asian-American woman's exile
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
Author: Lu Xun
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141194189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', 'A Comedy of Ducks', 'The Divorce' and 'A Public Example', among others. With an afterword by Yiyun Li.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141194189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', 'A Comedy of Ducks', 'The Divorce' and 'A Public Example', among others. With an afterword by Yiyun Li.
Brushing History Against the Grain
Author: Qingxin Lin
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9789622096974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book explores some essential features of the Chinese new historical fiction (NHF) and its socio-cultural implications. It argues that the NHF constitutes an oppositional discourse that rejects, both the grand narrative of linear (revolutionary) history, which dominates Chinese official historiography, and naïve confidence in 'Chinese modernity.'
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9789622096974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book explores some essential features of the Chinese new historical fiction (NHF) and its socio-cultural implications. It argues that the NHF constitutes an oppositional discourse that rejects, both the grand narrative of linear (revolutionary) history, which dominates Chinese official historiography, and naïve confidence in 'Chinese modernity.'
Beyond Sinology
Author: Andrea Bachner
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231164521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
New communication and information technologies remain challenging for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, film, visual and performance art, and design and architecture, both within China and different parts of the West. Approaching this history from alternative theoretical perspectives, this volume pinpoints the phenomena binding languages, scripts, and medial expressions to cultural and national identity. Through a complex study of intercultural representations, exchanges, and tensions, the text focuses on the concrete “scripting” of identity and alterity, advancing a new understanding of the links between identity and medium and a new critique of articulations that rely on single, monolithic, and univocal definitions of writing.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231164521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
New communication and information technologies remain challenging for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, film, visual and performance art, and design and architecture, both within China and different parts of the West. Approaching this history from alternative theoretical perspectives, this volume pinpoints the phenomena binding languages, scripts, and medial expressions to cultural and national identity. Through a complex study of intercultural representations, exchanges, and tensions, the text focuses on the concrete “scripting” of identity and alterity, advancing a new understanding of the links between identity and medium and a new critique of articulations that rely on single, monolithic, and univocal definitions of writing.
I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China
Author: Wen Zhu
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231136943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wen's fiction offers an audaciously plainspoken account of the often hedonistic individualism that is feverishly taking root. Set against the mundane landscapes of contemporary China-a worn Yangtze River vessel, cheap diners, a failing factory, a for-profit hospital operating by dated socialist norms-Zhu Wen's stories zoom in on the often tragicomic minutiae of everyday life in this fast-changing country. With subjects ranging from provincial mafiosi to nightmarish families and oppressed factory workers, his claustrophobic narratives depict a spiritually bankrupt society, periodically rocked by spasms of uncontrolled violence. For example, I Love Dollars, a story about casual sex in a provincial city whose caustic portrayal of numb disillusionment and cynicism, caused an immediate sensation in the Chinese literary establishment when it was first published. The novella's loose, colloquial voice and sharp focus on the indignity and iniquity of a society trapped between communism and capitalism showcase Zhu Wen's exceptional ability to make literary sense of the bizarre, ideologically confused amalgam that is contemporary China. Julia Lovell's fluent translation deftly reproduces Zhu Wen's wry sense of humor and powerful command of detail and atmosphere. The first book-length publication of Zhu Wen's fiction in English, I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China offers readers access to a trailblazing author and marks a major contribution to Chinese literature in English.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231136943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wen's fiction offers an audaciously plainspoken account of the often hedonistic individualism that is feverishly taking root. Set against the mundane landscapes of contemporary China-a worn Yangtze River vessel, cheap diners, a failing factory, a for-profit hospital operating by dated socialist norms-Zhu Wen's stories zoom in on the often tragicomic minutiae of everyday life in this fast-changing country. With subjects ranging from provincial mafiosi to nightmarish families and oppressed factory workers, his claustrophobic narratives depict a spiritually bankrupt society, periodically rocked by spasms of uncontrolled violence. For example, I Love Dollars, a story about casual sex in a provincial city whose caustic portrayal of numb disillusionment and cynicism, caused an immediate sensation in the Chinese literary establishment when it was first published. The novella's loose, colloquial voice and sharp focus on the indignity and iniquity of a society trapped between communism and capitalism showcase Zhu Wen's exceptional ability to make literary sense of the bizarre, ideologically confused amalgam that is contemporary China. Julia Lovell's fluent translation deftly reproduces Zhu Wen's wry sense of humor and powerful command of detail and atmosphere. The first book-length publication of Zhu Wen's fiction in English, I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China offers readers access to a trailblazing author and marks a major contribution to Chinese literature in English.