Sea of Regret Two Turn-Of-the-Century Chinese Romantic Novels

Name: Sea of Regret Two Turn-Of-the-Century Chinese Romantic Novels
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ISBN: 9780824817091

ISBN-10: 0824817095

ISBN-13: 9780824817091

Edition: 1995

Authors: Patrick Hanan, Wu Jianren, Fu Lin

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Published within a few months of each other in 1906, Stones in the Sea by Fu Lin and The Sea of Regret by Wu Jianren take opposite sides in the heated turn-of-the-century debate over the place of romantic and sexual love and passion in Chinese life. The Sea of Regret, which came to be the most popular short novel of this period, is a response to the less well-known but equally significant Stones in the Sea. Taken together, this pair of novels provides a fascinating portrait of early twentieth-century China's struggle with its own cultural, ethical, and sexual redefinition. Patrick Hanan's masterful translation brings together these novels -- neither of which has before been available in any…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 7/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Stones in the Sea (Qin hai shi)
































The Sea of Regret (Hen hai)





























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