King of Trees Three Novellas: the King of Trees, the King of Chess, the King of Children

Name: King of Trees Three Novellas: the King of Trees, the King of Chess, the King of Children
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ISBN: 9780811218665

ISBN-10: 081121866X

ISBN-13: 9780811218665

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ah Cheng, Bonnie S. MacDougall

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When the three novellas in The King of Trees were published separately in China in the 1980s, â€œAh Cheng feverâ€ spread across the country. Never before had a fiction writer dealt with the Cultural Revolution in such Daoist-Confucian terms, discarding Mao-speak, and mixing both traditional and vernacular elements with an aesthetic that emphasized not the hardships and miseries of those years, but the joys of close, meaningful friendships. In The King of Chess , a studentâ€™s obsession with finding worthy chess opponents symbolizes his pursuit of the dao; in The King of Children â€”made into an award-winning film by Chen Kaige, the director of Farewell My Concubineâ€” an educated youth is…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 6/29/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.484