The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century

By: Huang, Yunte

Book Overview

Award-winning literary scholar and poet Yunte Huang here gathers together an intimate and authoritative selection of significant works, in outstanding translations, from nearly fifty Chinese writers, that together express a search for the soul of modern China. From the 1912 overthrow of a millennia-long monarchy to the Cultural Revolution, to China's rise as a global military and economic superpower, the Chinese literary imagination has encompassed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239489
• ISBN13: 9780393239485
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"