The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature FROM THE PUBLISHER
Howard Goldblatt is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Colorado. With a generous selection of new translations commissioned for this book, readers will find the best short fiction, poetry, and essays from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in this first comprehensive collection of twentieth-century Chinese literature, which includes a lucid introduction by the editors and short biographies of the writers and poets.
Perhaps no one could be better suited to expanding the canonical limits than Lau and Goldblatt. . . .This volume, with its Columbia label, its editors' stature, and its certifiable claim to be the first comprehensive anthology of kind, cannot but achieve an instant authority. (Voice Literary Supplement)
SYNOPSIS
With a generous selection of new translations commissioned for this book, readers will find the best short fiction, poetry, and essays from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in this first comprehensive collection of twentieth-century Chinese literature, which includes a lucid introduction by the editors and short biographies of the writers and
FROM THE CRITICS
Voice Literary Supplement
Perhaps no one could be better suited to expanding the canonical limits than Lau and Goldblatt. . . .This volume, with its Columbia label, its editors' stature, and its certifiable claim to be the first comprehensive anthology of kind, cannot but achieve an instant authority.
Booknews
This collection of 20th century Chinese literature offers short fiction, poetry, and essays from 1918 to the communist takeover in 1949, and from that period to the present. Selections from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong represent the defiant spirit of the pre- Mao years, the socialist tradition, and the creative expression that followed Mao's death. Includes biographical sketches of the writers, and an introduction outlining political and literary trends in China. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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