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A Garden of One's Own: Modern Chinese Essays: 1919-1949
Tam King-Fai
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Description for A Garden of One's Own: Modern Chinese Essays: 1919-1949
Paperback. Features fifty essays that focus on a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. This work provides an introduction that supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
In this title, fifty essays by thirty Chinese writers bring to vivid life a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. Unlike the more thematically social and political fiction of the May Fourth movement, these xiaopin wen, or modern essays, address their readers with a unique intimacy, adopting a highly 'personal' voice that is quietly meditative, lyrical, discreet, and at times full of wit and melancholy. Tam King-fai provides an introduction that supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement, in addition to explanatory notes and commentary ... Read more
In this title, fifty essays by thirty Chinese writers bring to vivid life a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. Unlike the more thematically social and political fiction of the May Fourth movement, these xiaopin wen, or modern essays, address their readers with a unique intimacy, adopting a highly 'personal' voice that is quietly meditative, lyrical, discreet, and at times full of wit and melancholy. Tam King-fai provides an introduction that supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement, in addition to explanatory notes and commentary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The Chinese University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789629964238
SKU
V9789629964238
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About Tam King-Fai
Tam King-Fai is associate director of the Centre for Asian Studies at the The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Formerly he was an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature and coordinator of the Asian studies program at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
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