Three-Legged Horse

Name: Three-Legged Horse
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ISBN: 9780231113861

ISBN-10: 0231113862

ISBN-13: 9780231113861

Edition: 1999

Authors: Cheng Cheng Ch'ing-wen, Cheng Ch'ing-wen

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Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realization. Together, they…

Book details

List price: $100.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/10/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.83" wide x 8.70" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




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