Masterpieces of modern Chinese fiction, 1919-1949

by Sydney E. Shapiro and Various

A collection of masterpieces by some of China's most popular modern authors. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Unknown Binding
• ISBN: B000S5LL6Y
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Foreign Languages PressDistributed by China Publications Centre (Guoji Shudian)
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A very good bilingual collection

This is a good collection of Chinese short stories arranged chronologically spanning the 1920s to the 1940s. This anthology is bilingual with the simplified Chinese on the left page. It contains "Crescent Moon" by well know author Lao She, "The Diary of Miss Sophia" by Ms. Ding Ling, and "Hands" by Ms. Xiao Hong. I think "Hands" might also have been translated as "The Dyer's Daughter." It's the story about a girl whose poor family makes a living dying and she has to go to school with dye all over her hands. It also contains a story by a Taiwanese author. The main selling point for me was the SIMPLIFIED Chinese. Most of the bilingual books I've found are in the traditional Chinese characters.