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Author Huang, Fan, 1950-

Title Zero and other fictions / Huang Fan ; edited and translated by John Balcom.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 152 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan
Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan.
Contents Lai Suo -- The Intelligent Man -- How to Measure the Width of a Ditch -- Zero.
Summary Against the backdrop of nativist rural narratives dominating Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, Huang Fan published thrilling urban portraits and political satires, reorienting the nation's attention. His sardonic tone stood in stark contrast to the self-serious social realism then in vogue, and after decades of groundbreaking work, he is now one of Asia's most celebrated authors, crucial to understanding the development of Taiwanese literature over the past fifty years. The first collection of Fan's work to appear in English, this anthology includes Zero, a futuristic novella t.
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Subject Taiwan -- Fiction.
Taiwan.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject City and town life -- Fiction.
City and town life.
Political fiction, Chinese.
Political fiction, Chinese.
Satire, Chinese.
Satire, Chinese.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Fiction.
Added Author Balcom, John.
Added Title Short stories. Selections. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010081023
Other Form: Print version: 9780231157407 0231157401 (DLC) 2010051441
ISBN 0231528051 electronic book
9780231528054 electronic book
9780231157407 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0231157401 (cloth : alkaline paper)