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Honolulu.
University of Hawai'i Press.
2003.
x + 252pp, papaerback. "In the first half of the twentieth century, urban Chinese regularly lost themselves in tales of scandalous affairs, tender romances, and splendid acts of martial gallantry - standard reading fare on Saturdays among city dwellers craving entertainment and escape. Openly disdained by many intellectuals for their frothy content and maudlin appeal, these tales have been largely ignored in histories and anthologies of modern Chinese fiction. The stories selected and translated here invited Chinese readers to enter worlds at once connected to and removed from their familiar surroundings. Today the stories have become a record of what urban life was actually like, as well as what readers then wished it to be." Publisher's description. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 96492)
ISBN: 9780824826901
Related Subject Areas:
China
Chinese
Fiction
modern fiction
other prose: from c 1900 -
short stories
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