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

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ISBN 10: 039335380X ISBN 13: 9780393353808

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2017

Riassunto

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 an astonishing array of moods and styles—from sublime lyricism to witty surrealism, poignant documentary to the ironic, the transgressive, and the defiant.Huang provides the requisite context for these revelatory works of fiction, poetry, essays, letters, and speeches in helpful headnotes, chronologies, and brief introductions to the Republican, Revolutionary, and Post-Mao Eras. From Lu Xun’s Call to Arms (1923) to Gao Xinjiang’s Nobel Prize–winning Soul Mountain (1990), this remarkable anthology features writers both known and unknown in its celebration of the versatility of writing. From belles lettres to literary propaganda, from poetic revolution to pulp fiction, The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature is an eye-opening, mesmerizing, and indispensable portrait of China in the tumultuous twentieth century.

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Recensione:

"Huang is previously the author of a witty and stylish book about Charlie Chan which drew on a variety of artforms from doggerel verses to B-movies to reflect on the representation of China in the West. The Big Red Book, which benefits from translations by a Who's Who of talent, is similarly wide-ranging. And while Huang's prose choices are relatively conventional, his selections of poems and sketches of their authors are engagingly idiosyncratic." --The Times Literary Supplement

"[A] worthwhile anthology... that manages to combine the established canon with less-well-known selections... [Its] breadth and variety...will, one hopes, encourage new readers to explore more Chinese literature in full translations." --The New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

Yunte Huang is a Guggenheim Fellow and a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Transpacific Imaginations and Charlie Chan, which won the 2011 Edgar Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. Having come of age in China as a student in the time of Tiananmen, Huang now lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 039335380X
• ISBN 13: 9780393353808
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 606
• Redattore: Huang Yunte