History of Modern Chinese Fiction, Third Edition

Name: History of Modern Chinese Fiction, Third Edition
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ISBN: 9780253213112

ISBN-10: 0253213118

ISBN-13: 9780253213112

Edition: 3rd 1999

Authors: C. T. Hsia, David Der-wei Wang

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Regarded as a pioneering classic study of 20th-century Chinese fiction, this volume covers some 60 years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 776
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

C. T. Hsia is the author of several important books on Chinese literature. He has been widely influential among Chinese readers and has influenced two generations of English-speaking scholars. He retired from teaching in 1991 and is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at Columbia University.



Introduction



Preface to the Third Edition


Preface to the Second Edition


Preface



The Early Period (1917-1927)



The Literary Revolution



Lu Hsun



The Literary Association (Yeh Shao-chun, Ping Hsin and Ling Shu-hua, Lo Huasheng)



The Creation Society (Yu Ta-fu)



A Decade of Growth (1928-1937)



Leftists and Independents



Mao Tun



Lao She



Shen Ts'ung-wen



Chang T'ien-i



Pa Chin



Communist Fiction, I (Chiang Kuangtz'u, Ting Ling, Hsiao Chun)



Wu Tsu-hsiang



The War Period and After (1937-1957)



Conformity, Defiance, and Achievement



The Veteran Writers (Mao Tun, Shen Ts'ung-wen, Lao She, Pa Chin)



Eileen Chang



Ch'ien Chung-shu



Shih T'o



Communist Fiction, II (Chao Shu-li, Ting Ling)



Conclusion


Epilogue: Communist Literature Since 1958



Obsession With China: The Moral Burden of Modern Chinese Literature



The Whirlwind



Obsession With China (II): Three Taiwan Writers


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index