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Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic

By Xu Xu, Frederik H. Green (Translator)
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By Xu Xu, Frederik H. Green (Translator)
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Introducing the works of a major Chinese writer—liberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exotic—once banned but now embraced, and newly "discovered" in the West.

Xu Xu 徐訏 (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today’s readers an unusual glimpse into China’s turbulent twentieth century.

These translations—spanning a p...

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