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23%OFFSung-Sheng Yv Chang - The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan - 9780231165761 - V9780231165761
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The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan

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Description for The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan Hardback. Editor(s): Chang, Sung-Sheng Yvonne; Yeh, Michelle; Fan, Ming-Ju. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 161 x 41. Weight in Grams: 972.
This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; critical and retrospective essays by influential writers, editors, and scholars; transcripts of historical speeches and conferences; literary-society manifestos and inaugural journal prefaces; and governmental policy pronouncements that have significantly influenced Taiwanese literature. These texts illuminate Asia's experience with modernization, colonialism, and postcolonialism; the character of Taiwan's Cold War and post-Cold War cultural production; gender and environmental ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231165761
SKU
V9780231165761
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About Sung-Sheng Yv Chang
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang is professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law; Transformations of a Literary Field: On Contemporary Taiwanese Fiction; and Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan. She is the editor of Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: ... Read more

Reviews for The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan
This book is a tour de force, bringing together many of the most important documents relating to the history of Taiwan literary criticism and firsthand reflections on writing and the literary scene from leading writers, playwrights, and poets. This volume offers a translation of an impressive array of critical writings on literature into English for the very first time. No ... Read more

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