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Selected Short Stories of Shen Congwen
Congwen Shen
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Description for Selected Short Stories of Shen Congwen
Paperback. This collection of short stories reveals the plight and strength of the common Chinese people. There are contradictions between the "new" and the "old", and also between human values with enough integrity to nurture life, versus corruption that leads to the decline and death of a culture. Translator(s): Kinkley, Jeffrey C. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
Shen Congwen (1902?-1988) is one of modern China's great writers. He is also one of the finest Chinese prose stylists of all time. Literary critics and historians have offered several reasons for why Shen Congwen is a great writer. The foremost explanation is his power as a stylist. He could make the Chinese language beautiful. Some critics have praised Shen Congwen for creating characters with beautiful souls. Readers credit him with having described beautiful and fulfilling styles of life, even in materially primitive surroundings, that conjure up the ""health and dignity"" prized by the Crescent Moon writers. Other critics value ... Read more
Shen Congwen (1902?-1988) is one of modern China's great writers. He is also one of the finest Chinese prose stylists of all time. Literary critics and historians have offered several reasons for why Shen Congwen is a great writer. The foremost explanation is his power as a stylist. He could make the Chinese language beautiful. Some critics have praised Shen Congwen for creating characters with beautiful souls. Readers credit him with having described beautiful and fulfilling styles of life, even in materially primitive surroundings, that conjure up the ""health and dignity"" prized by the Crescent Moon writers. Other critics value ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The Chinese University Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789629961107
SKU
V9789629961107
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About Congwen Shen
Jeffrey C. Kinkley is Professor of History at St. John's University in New York. While his research interests include the intellectual and social history of twentieth China, he has been the specialist on Shen Congwen when he first published The Odyssey of Shen Congwen, Stanford University Press, 1987) with many edited and translated collections afterwards. His current interest has been ... Read more
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