Publication

2015 - Cornell University East Asia Program

Language

English

Word Count

102,000 words, Guess

Page Count

408 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101939161584
  • ISBN-139781939161581
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015945075
  • OCLC Control Number908090248
  • Better World Books9781939161581
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPL2919.W37
  • LCCPL2919.W37 Z78 2015

Description

"This is the first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English. It offers biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of Wang's work. The essays cover topics such as Wang's writing principles, typology of characters, analysis of lexicon, employment of stream-of-consciousness, musicality, relationship to Modernist writers of the West, relationship to Lu Xun, and issues of translating Wang's works into Western languages. There are original contributions by Wang Wenxing illuminating his own writing through a discussion of his way of reading, and a biographical essay by Ch'en Chu-yun, his wife, who shares with the reader moments of their private life and the writing habits of her husband. In addition, this volume appends outlines of Wang's novels and bibliographies that are valuable to both students and scholars in their studies of Wang Wenxing's writing in particular as well as to the understanding of Taiwanese and Chinese literature in general."

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Reading Wang Wenxing: Critical EssaysCornell University East Asia Program2015-01-01

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