The Monster That is History
History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China
This is a magnificent book-one of the most original and stunning in the field of modern Chinese literature. The eight studies that comprise the book unfold a vast canvas of twentieth-century China, one that is filled with terror, violence, phantasmagoria, and death. This is indeed the dark, ghostly side of the 'Chinese Modern.' Wang's prodigious command of primary Chinese texts from the entire literary legacy of twentieth century China is nothing short of stunning. No other study in the field in any language is remotely comparable to the richness and density of materials and insights packed into the book.-Leo Ou-fan Lee, Professor of Chinese…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-23873-2
- EAN: 9780520238732
- Produktnummer: 19206269
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.6 cm 568 g
- Gewicht: 568
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
David Der-wei Wang is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Fin-de-Siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernity of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911 (1997) and Fictional Realism in Twentieth-Century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen (1992). He is the coeditor of Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey (2000).
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