Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949
Title | Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949 PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph S. M. Lau |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 634 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780231042031 |
Brings together some of the best and most historically significant works of short fiction written in China in this century -including such important figures in the development of Chinese modernism as Lu Hsün, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and Shen Ts' ung-wen. The companion volume to the highly acclaimed (Columbia, 1978), this new volume presents modernist short fiction from the thirty-year period leading up to the Communist revolution of 1949, after which Chinese literature entered a new phase of development. The stories range in setting from the late Ch'ing dynasty through the Sino-Japanese War and the early Communist years, and range in length from brief tales to substantial short novels. Though a large number of the writers represented are leftists, works of all political viewpoints have been included to provide the full literary panorama of one of the most fertile periods of Chinese creative activity.
C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature
Title | C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature PDF eBook |
Author | C. T. Hsia |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 564 |
Release | 2004-03-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231503471 |
Best known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature stands beside his two earlier books as part of his critical legacy to all readers seriously interested in the subject. C. T. Hsia's writings on Chinese literature express a candor rare among his Western colleagues. Thus the first section of the book contains three essays that place Chinese literature in critical perspective, examining its substance and significance and questioning some of the critical approaches and methods adopted by Western sinologists for its study and appreciation. The second section has two essays on traditional drama—one on the Yuan masterpiece The Romance of the Western Chamber and the other a sophisticated study of the plays of the foremost Ming dramatist T'ang Hsien-tsu. The third section is the richest and longest of the book, containing six essays on traditional and early modern fiction. At least four of these—on "The Military Romance" and the novels Flowers in the Mirror, The Travels of Lao Ts'an, and Jade Pear Spirit—are among the author's finest works. Finally, the fourth section of the book, covering modern fiction, includes one essay on the novel The Korchin Banner Plains, an essay on women in Chinese communist fiction, and three concise yet illuminating studies of the short story during the three republican decades before Mao, the first dozen years under Mao, and in Taiwan during the 1960s.
Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Fiction, 1919-1949
Title | Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Fiction, 1919-1949 PDF eBook |
Author | Lu Hsun |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 563 |
Release | 1983-11-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780835112383 |
Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Fiction 1919 - 1949
Title | Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Fiction 1919 - 1949 PDF eBook |
Author | Lu Xun |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 604 |
Release | 2004-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781410106759 |
In the thirty years from the literary revolution of 1919 to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China experienced a great flowering in literary creativity. The present selection comprises twenty-four outstanding short stories by twenty-four of the most talented writers of this period. The stories reveal the sufferings of the Chinese people in the years before liberation and show also the revolutionary course taken by them in their search for a new life. They also demonstrate the high level of writing achieved in this period: each is a valuable contribution to the treasury of modern Chinese literature. In compiling this collection, the editors have taken into account both the position of the author in modern Chinese literary history and the representativeness of the story in the author's creative work. For the convenience of the readers, each story is followed by a brief biography of the author.
Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Fiction
Title | Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | She Lao |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 718 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Chinese literature |
ISBN | 9787119092966 |
A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature 1900-1949
Title | A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature 1900-1949 PDF eBook |
Author | Zbigniew Slupski |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 2023-11-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004642951 |
A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature, 1900-1949
Title | A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature, 1900-1949 PDF eBook |
Author | Nils Göran David Malmqvist |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9789004078819 |