| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 220 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Weatherhead books on Asia.
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Weatherhead books on Asia.
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| Note |
This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human, beast, ghost (Ren shou gui)." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost; Author's Preface to the 1983 Editions of: Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost; Written in the Margins of Life; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface; The Devil Pays a Nighttime Visit to Mr. Qian Zhongshu; Windows; On Happiness; On Laughter; Eating; Reading Aesop's Fables; On Moral Instruction; A Prejudice; Explaining Literary Blindness; On Writers; Notes; Human, Beast, Ghost; First Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition; Second Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition; God's Dream; Cat. |
| Summary |
Zhongshu Qian was one of twentieth-century China's most ingenious literary stylists, the author of short stories, essays, and a brilliant comedic novel that has inspired generations of Chinese readers. Writing between the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Communist takeover in 1949, Qian was a pioneering modernist and extraordinary satirist whose insight into the irony and travesties of modern China remains stunningly fresh. This eagerly awaited translation joins Qian's collection of iconoclastic essays on life, language, and literature, Written on t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Qian, Zhongshu, 1910-1998 -- Translations into English.
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Qian, Zhongshu, 1910-1998. |
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Qian, Zhongshu, 1910- -- Translations into English. |
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Chinese essays -- Translations into English.
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Chinese essays. |
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Short stories, Chinese -- Translations into English.
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Short stories, Chinese. |
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Electronic books.
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Translations.
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| Added Author |
Rea, Christopher G.
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Hu, Dennis T.
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Qian, Zhongshu, 1910-1998.
Xie zai ren sheng bian shang. English.
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Qian, Zhongshu, 1910-1998.
Ren shou gui. English.
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| Added Title |
Written in the margins of life.
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Human, beast, ghost.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Qian, Zhongshu, 1910- Humans, beasts, and ghosts. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011 9780231152747 (DLC) 2010018856 (OCoLC)629700345 |
| ISBN |
9780231526548 (electronic book) |
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0231526547 (electronic book) |
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9780231152747 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231152754 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0231152744 |
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0231152752 |
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