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Chutzpah! - New Voices from China (Paperback)
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Chutzpah! - New Voices from China (Paperback)
Series: Chinese Literature Today Book Series
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To Westerners China has often seemed a monolith, speaking with one
voice - whether that of an ancient dynasty, a socialist state, or
an economic powerhouse. Chutzpah! New Voices from China shatters
this illusion, giving Western readers a rare chance to listen to
the brilliant polyphony of Chinese fiction today. Here, in the
realms of realism and fantasy, and portraying worlds lyrical,
gritty, or wildly avant-garde, sixteen selections - three of which
are nonfiction - by up-and-coming Chinese writers take readers from
the suburbs of Nanjing to the mountains of Xinjiang Province, from
London's Chinatown to a universe seemingly sprung from a video
game. In these stories one may encounter a sweet, lonely fabric
store owner or a lesbian housecleaner, a posse of shit-talking
vo-tech students or a human hive-mind. A jeep-driving swordsman
girds himself for battle by reading Borges and Nabokov. A
Beijing-raised Kazakh boy hunts for his lost heritage. A teenager
plots revenge on the bureaucrat responsible for demolishing his
home. A starving child falls in love with a water spirit. These
stories, collected by Ou Ning and Austin Woerner, and offered in
English by leading translators of Chinese, travel the breadth and
depth of China's remarkable literary landscape. Drawn from the
pages of Chutzpah!, one of China's most innovative literary
magazines, this anthology bids farewell to the tired tropes of
moonlight and peach blossoms, goodbye to the constraints of
socialist realism. In their place it introduces us to the
imaginative power, boundless creativity, and kaleidoscopic
diversity of a new generation of Chinese fiction.
General
Imprint: |
University of Oklahoma Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Chinese Literature Today Book Series |
Release date: |
September 2015 |
Editors: |
Ou Ning
• Austin Woerner
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8061-4870-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
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LSN: |
0-8061-4870-5 |
Barcode: |
9780806148700 |
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