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Author Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957, author

Title The three leaps of Wang Lun : a Chinese novel / by Alfred Döblin ; translated by C.D. Godwin
Published New York : New York Review Books ; Sha Tin, N.T., Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 490 pages) : map
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Contents Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Dedication; Prologue. The Attack on Chao Lao-hsü; Book One. Wang Lun; Book Two. The Broken Melon; Book Three. Lord of the Yellow Earth; Book Four. The Western Paradise; Image Plate; Appendix. The Insurrection of Wang Lun, in 1774
Summary "China 1760-1774 Novel translated from the German."
"In 1915, fourteen years before Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Doblin published his first novel, an amazing, extensively researched Chinese historical extravaganza: The Three Leaps of Wang Lun. Even more remarkably, given its subject matter, the book was written in expressionist style and is now considered the first modern German novel, as well as the first Western novel to depict a China untouched by the West. Based on actual accounts of a doomed rebellion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the late eighteenth century, the novel tells the story of Wang Lun, a historical martial arts master and charismatic leader of the White Lotus sect, who leads a futile revolt of the "Truly Powerless." Densely packed cities and Tibetan wastes, political intrigue and religious yearning, imperial court life and the fate of wandering outcasts are depicted in a language of enormous vigor and matchless imagination, unfolding the theme of timidity against force and a mystical sense of the world against the realities of power."
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed February 27, 2020)
Subject Wang, Lun, -1774 -- Fiction
SUBJECT Wang, Lun, -1774 -- Fiction
Wang, Lun, -1774 fast
Subject FICTION -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Translating & Interpreting.
SUBJECT China -- History -- Qianlong, 1736-1795 -- Fiction
Subject China
Genre/Form Fiction
History
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Form Electronic book
Author Godwin, C. D., translator
ISBN 9789629969332
9629969335
Other Titles Drei Sprünge des Wang-lun. English