|
|
books
| book details |
Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic
By (author) Xu Xu, Translated with commentary by Frederik H. Green
|
| on special |
normal price: R 774.95
Price: R 697.95
|
| book description |
Introducing the works of a major Chinese writer—liberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exotic—once banned but now embraced, and newly ""discovered"" in the West. Xu Xu å¾è¨ (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today’s readers an unusual glimpse into China’s turbulent twentieth century. These translations--spanning a period of some thirty years, from 1937 until 1965--bring to life some of Xu Xu’s most representative short fictions from prewar Shanghai and postwar Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Afterword illustrates that Xu Xu’s idealistic tendencies in defiance of the politicization of art exemplify his affinity with European romanticism and link his work to a global literary modernity.
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Stone Bridge Press
Published date | 2 Jul 2020
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 224
Dimensions | 215 x 139 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-6117-2059-4
Readership Age |
BISAC | history / asia / china
| other options |
Normally shipped |
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 1 621.95
Price | R 1 459.95
| on special |
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
|
Mason Coile
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 520.95
now: R 468.95
|
A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
|
|
|
|
|
