Three Leaps of Wang Lun A Chinese Novel

Name: Three Leaps of Wang Lun A Chinese Novel
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ISBN: 9789629965648

ISBN-10: 962996564X

ISBN-13: 9789629965648

Edition: 2015

Authors: Alfred Doblin, C. D. Godwin

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In 1915, fourteen years before Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin published his first novel, an amazing, extensively researched Chinese historical extravaganza: The Three Leaps of Wang Lun. Even more remarkably, given its subject matter, the book was written in expressionist style and is now considered the first modern German novel, as well as the first Western novel to depict a China untouched by the West.Based on actual accounts of a doomed rebellion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the late eighteenth century, the novel tells the story of Wang Lun, a historical martial arts master and charismatic leader of the White Lotus sect, who leads a futile revolt of the "Truly…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 1/13/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.43" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English