| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 279 pages) |
| Contents |
Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Essays; 1. Lu Xun; 2. Xia Mianzun; 3. Zhou Zuoren; 4. Xu Dishan; 5. Ye Shengtao; 6. Lin Yutang; 7. Zhang Henshui; 8. Mao Dun; 9. Xu Zhimo; 10. Yu Dafu; 11. Su Xuelin; 12. Feng Zikai; 13. Lu Yin; 14. Zheng Zhenduo; 15. Zhu Ziqing; 16. Lao She; 17. Bing Xin; 18. Yu Pingbo; 19. Fang Lingru; 20. Liang Shiqiu; 21. Zhu Xiang; 22. Ba Jin; 23. Ye Lingfeng; 24. Li Guangtian; 25. Liang Yuchun; 26. Wu Boxiao; 27. Lu Li; 28. Qian Zhongshu; 29. He Qifang; 30. Su Qing; 31. Zhang Ailing; Works Cited |
| Summary |
Fifty essays by thirty Chinese writers bring to vivid life a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. Unlike the more thematically social and political fiction of the May Fourth movement, these xiaopin wen, or modern essays, address their readers with a unique intimacy, adopting a highly "personal" voice that is quietly meditative, lyrical, discreet, and full of wit and melancholy. Tam King-fai supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement, and with and commentary he explicates the form's lyric aestheticism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279) |
| Notes |
Translated from the Chinese |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Politics in literature.
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Republicanism in literature.
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Chinese essays -- Translations into English
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Chinese essays -- 20th century
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Asian -- Chinese.
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Chinese essays
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Politics in literature
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Republicanism in literature
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- May Fourth movement, 1919.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024111
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tam, King-fai, editor, translator.
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| ISBN |
9789629969769 |
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9629969769 |
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9789629969080 |
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9629969084 |
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