The Rice-Sprout Song: A Novel of Modern China - Brossura

Chang, Eileen

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ISBN 10: 0520210883 ISBN 13: 9780520210882

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1998

Riassunto

The first of Eileen Chang's novels to be written in English, The Rice-Sprout Song portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement brings to a southern village in China during the early 1950s. Contrary to the hopes of the peasants in this story, the redistribution of land does not mean an end to hunger. Man-made and natural disasters bring about the threat of famine, while China's involvement in the Korean War further deepens the peasants' misery. Chang's chilling depiction of the peasants' desperate attempts to survive both the impending famine and government abuse makes for spellbinding reading. Her critique of communism rewrites the land-reform discourse at the same time it lays bare the volatile relations between politics and literature.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

David Der-wei Wang is Professor of Chinese Literature at Columbia University. His current publications include Running Wild: Contemporary Chinese Fiction (1994).

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"A modern Chinese classic."—C. T. Hsia, author of History of Modern Chinese Fiction

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520210883
• ISBN 13: 9780520210882
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 182