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My South Seas Sleeping Beauty
Zhang Guixing
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Description for My South Seas Sleeping Beauty
Set in the magical jungles of Borneo, this work recounts the life of Su Qi, a troubled, sensitive son of a wealthy family.It presents a deeply evocative exploration of sexuality and identity and a reworking of Chinese and Western myth. Translator(s): Jaffee, Valerie. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 216 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a captivating coming-of-age tale set in the magical jungles of Borneo. Told through the vivid recollections of a Chinese-Malay youth, the novel recounts the life of Su Qi, a troubled, sensitive son of a wealthy family, and exemplifies the imaginative range of one of Taiwan's most innovative writers. "There were all sorts of stories about how my younger sister died," Su Qi begins, hinting at the power of memory to bend and refract truth. Yet whichever the real story may be, the fact is that the death of Su Qi's sister created an irrevocable ... Read more
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a captivating coming-of-age tale set in the magical jungles of Borneo. Told through the vivid recollections of a Chinese-Malay youth, the novel recounts the life of Su Qi, a troubled, sensitive son of a wealthy family, and exemplifies the imaginative range of one of Taiwan's most innovative writers. "There were all sorts of stories about how my younger sister died," Su Qi begins, hinting at the power of memory to bend and refract truth. Yet whichever the real story may be, the fact is that the death of Su Qi's sister created an irrevocable ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
Number of Pages
216
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231140584
SKU
V9780231140584
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99-15
About Zhang Guixing
Zhang Guixing is a Malaysian-Chinese author best known for a series of epic novels set in Borneo: Siren Song, The Clown Dynasty, Herds of Elephants, and The Primate Cup. His work has been the subject of extensive academic and popular discussion in Taiwan, where he continues to live and work as a high school English teacher. Valerie Jaffee is a ... Read more
Reviews for My South Seas Sleeping Beauty
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is an alternating narrative of life in and around the jungles of Malaysia, a mixture of fantasy and exoticism (the good kind), and of university life in Taiwan. It is a highly descriptive, occasionally erotic, and often gripping novel that will be simultaneously accessible and unfamiliar to Western readers
and the translation is first-rate.
Howard ... Read more
and the translation is first-rate.
Howard ... Read more