Small Well Lane A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History

Name: Small Well Lane A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History
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ISBN: 9780472097951

ISBN-10: 0472097954

ISBN-13: 9780472097951

Edition: 2002

Authors: Li Longyun, Hong Jiang, Timothy Cheek

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Li Longyun's five-act play, Small Well Lane (Xiaojing hutong), is a spoken drama published in Beijing in 1981. With a cast of nearly thirty characters of different social roles and individual persona, the play provides a vivid sense of how a group of working class Beijing residents living in a courtyard compound in a back alley, or hutong, named "Small Well Lane" experienced China's revolution from 1949 to 1980. It beautifully records the art of talking and living among Beijing back alley folk and provides a vivid contrast to the concerns and lives of China's elites. This authoritative translation by Hong Jiang and Timothy Cheek is accompanied by notes and annotations to help readers not…

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 6/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 152
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Translators' Note


Preface to the English Edition



Introduction: Sense of Place, History, and Community in Small Well Lane



Small Well Lane


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