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Stories for Saturday Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction

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ISBN-10: 0824826906

ISBN-13: 9780824826901

Edition: 2003

Authors: Timothy C. Wong

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In the first half of the 20th century, many Chinese lost themselves in tales of scandal, romance and martial gallantry - standard reading for city dwellers craving escape. The stories selected and translated here are a record of what urban life was like, as well as what readers wished it to be.
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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 5/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Preface
Scandal
The Confidence in the Game
The Red Chips
Rickshaw Man
Love
The Bridal Palanquin
For the Love of Her Feet
So Near, So Far
Gallantry
On the Road to Thistle Gate
The Windmaster
From Marvelous Gallants, Chapter 40
Crime
The Black Cat
The Sunglasses Society
The Ghost in the Villa
Satire
In the Pawnshop
A Writer's Tribulations
Men's Depravity Exposed
Afterword
Publication Notes
About the Authors