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Author: Anne Witchard Publisher: Hong Kong University Press ISBN: 9888139606 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 188
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Lao She remains revered as one of China's great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. This book covers the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929.
Author: Anne Witchard Publisher: Hong Kong University Press ISBN: 9888139606 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
Lao She remains revered as one of China's great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. This book covers the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929.
Author: Lao She Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1802060510 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 330
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A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son's experiences at the height of London's Jazz Age 'He was in London - why be bothered looking at it? Wasn't it bad enough just being there?' Newly arrived from China, Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled by St Paul's Cathedral, where they try to make a living amid the smog and bustle of 1920s London. As they struggle with money, misunderstandings and the ways of the English - from the overbearing patronage of missionary Reverend Ely to their well-meaning landlady Mrs Weddeburn and her carefree daughter - can understanding, even love, blossom? Both a moving story of the Chinese immigrant experience and a bitingly funny satire on the English, Mr Ma and Son delicately portrays the dreams and disappointments of those seeking a new life in a distant land. Translated by William Dolby, with an introduction by Julia Lovell
Author: Lao She Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 9780824818036 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 324
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"If you want to write good short stories," Lao She once observed, "you have to give it everything you’ve got. The world will allow the existence of a very imperfect novel, but it won’t be that polite with a short story. Art, after all, is not like a pig—the fatter the better." Lao She’s stories proved to be very good indeed, moving and delighting readers for many years and establishing him as a master of classic modern fiction. Thankfully we now have access to a rich collection of his short stories in superb English translations. These stories showcase the varied facets of Lao She’s impressive talent and draw us effortlessly into his world-and we emerge the better for it. This is a writer eternally immersed in and fascinated by the kaleidoscope of humankind. The stories are characterized by humor and by intensely sympathetic explorations of human relationships. Some of them are unsettling. Many are poignant. Most of them make us laugh. All evoke the color and energy of life, for Lao She is also a connoisseur of the everyday with a keen appreciation of the concrete detail. A plate of steaming dumplings, the gleam of gold-capped front teeth, rickshaws dragging along alleys, punishing winter winds, rolls of bright silk, a pair of chopsticks—these things are the stuff of Lao She’s fiction and the essence of his metaphors, and he cherishes such little details of life more than the abstractions of politics or philosophy.
Author: Anne Veronica Witchard Publisher: ISBN: 9789882208643 Category : Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Languages : en Pages :
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Lao She remains revered as one of China's great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique analysis, and study. Here, Witchard reveals Lao She's encounter with British high modernism and literature from Dickens to Conrad to Joyce.
Author: 老舍 Publisher: Chinese University Press ISBN: 9789629961251 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 252
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This play portrays the life of the owner of a Beijing teahouse and his customers through 50 years of upheaval in China. Spanning from 1898 to the late 1940s, scenes change from late Qing dynasty to the early days of the Republic, then after to post-1945 when Guomindang soldiers take over the city.
Author: She Lao Publisher: Midland Books ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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This novel marks the peak of Lao She's career as a professional writer and registers a new approach to the representation of China in its absurdist situation. It can be read as an "epic" of modern China.
Author: Lao She Publisher: Penguin Classics ISBN: 9780143208129 Category : China Languages : en Pages : 240
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When a traveller from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local cat-man, he becomes acquainted in all aspects of cat-life: he learns to speak Felinese, masters cat-poetry, and appreciates the narcotic effects of the reverie leaf - their food staple. But curiosity turns to despair when he ventures further into the heart of the country and the culture, and realizes that he is witnessing the bleak decline of a civilization. Cat Country, Lao She's only work of science fiction, is both a dark, dystopian tale of one man's close encounter with the feline kind and a scathing indictment of a country gone awry.
Author: Paul French Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101580380 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 263
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Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author: Anne Witchard
Author: Anne Witchard
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Author: Lao She
Author: Lao She
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Author: She Lao
Author: Lao She
Author: She Lao
Author: Paul French