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Bloomington.
Indiana University Press.
1979
Translated by Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao. xxix + 377pp, chipping to dustjacket at extremities, few tears to dustjacket, hardback, corners little bumped, internally very clean, a good copy overall. Critic C.T. Hsia called this work "the most delightful and carefully wrought novel in modern Chinese literature." "Satiric and urbane, Fortress Besieged, first published in China in 1947, is a comedy of manners that - to recall Trollope's title - speaks to us of the way we live now. The novel's hapless picaresque hero returns from abroad on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War. On the basis of his bogus degree, Fang Hung-chien obtains a teaching post at the newly established San-lu University, and the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Ch'ien Chung-shu's merciless satire." Publisher's description. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 129161)
ISBN: 9780253165183
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China
East Asia
Fiction
Literary studies: general
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