Running Wild: New Chinese Writers

by David Der-wei Wang (Editor), Jeanne Tai (Editor)

Overview

The fourteen contemporary novellas and stories in Running Wild represent the best of new Chinese writers from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the U.S., and New Zealand.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231096492
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	06/23/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.22(h) x 0.62(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His works include The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China; Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernity in Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911; and Fictional Realism in Twentieth-Century China.

Editorial Reviews

Written in Chinese in the late 1980s and early '90s, these fourteen stories from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the U.S., and New Zealand pull no punches. . . . Clear-eyed and realistic yet often lyrical, these modern tales show that contemporary Chinese fiction is alive and well.

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