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17-Year-Old Hussars
Nei, Lu; Jiren, Wang
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Description for 17-Year-Old Hussars
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
The 17-Year-Old Hussars is a collection of two short novels about the coming of age for teenagers in rapidly-changing 20th century China.
The teens depicted in the first part of the collection, The Seventeen-Year-Old Hussars, were the first lost generation of China as the country went through the biggest social revolution in modern history. Lucky to have missed the tumultuous Cultural Revolution days when the old value system had been castigated as feudal and retrogressive and when most of the schools were closed and only the selected few were allowed college education, they were nevertheless condemned to grow up ... Read more
The 17-Year-Old Hussars is a collection of two short novels about the coming of age for teenagers in rapidly-changing 20th century China.
The teens depicted in the first part of the collection, The Seventeen-Year-Old Hussars, were the first lost generation of China as the country went through the biggest social revolution in modern history. Lucky to have missed the tumultuous Cultural Revolution days when the old value system had been castigated as feudal and retrogressive and when most of the schools were closed and only the selected few were allowed college education, they were nevertheless condemned to grow up ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Shanghai Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781602202580
SKU
V9781602202580
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Ref
99-15
About Nei, Lu; Jiren, Wang
Lu Nei, lives in Shanghai, China. He is the author of The Following Trilogy and Young Babyln among others. He has received numerous literary awards, including the first "People's Literature" award for best new writer and the annual literary award given by GQ magazine.
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