| Description |
1 online resource (283 pages) |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
Remembering Mr. Wu You ; Green yellow ; Whistling / Ge Fei -- The noon of howling wind ; 1986 ; This story is for Willow / Yu Hua -- Flying over Maple Village ; The birth of the water god ; The brothers Shu / Su Tong -- The hut on the mountain / Can Xue -- The big drugstore / Bei Cun -- I am a young drunkard / Sun Ganlu -- More ways than one to make a kite ; A wandering spirit / Ma Yuan |
| Summary |
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing outlandish Tibetan myths, these stories are defined by their devotion to theatrics and their willful apathy toward everything held sacred by the generation that witnessed the Cultural Revolution |
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Jing Wang has selected provocative examples of this new school of writing, which gained prominence in the late 1980s. Contradicting many long-cherished beliefs about Chinese writers - including the alleged tradition of writing as a political act against authoritarianism - these stories make a dramatic break from conventions of modern Chinese literature by demonstrating an irreverence toward history and culture and by celebrating the artificiality of storytelling |
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Enriched by the work of a distinguished group of translators, this collection presents an aesthetic experience that may have outraged many revolutionary-minded readers in China, but one that also occupies an important place in the canon of Chinese literature |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English
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Experimental fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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FICTION -- General.
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Chinese fiction
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Experimental fiction
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Anthologie
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Chinesisch
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Erzählung
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Roman expérimental -- Chine.
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Roman chinois -- 20e siècle.
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Prosa
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Chinese fiction -- 20th century.
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Experimental fiction, Chinese.
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Chinesisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Translations
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Experimental fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wang, Jing, 1950- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822382133 |
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082238213X |
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