Readings in Modern Chinese Literature

Wu-Chi Liu (editor), Professor Tien-Yi Li (editor)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Readings in Modern Chinese Literature is designed as a textbook for the student who, after two or three semesters of intensive study, has acquired a knowledge of colloquial Chinese and is now ready to approach reading original plays, poems, stories and essays. The volume dealing with fiction presents fourteen short stories with notes and introductions. The major writers of the modern period, such as Lu Hsun, Mao Tun, Lao She, Pa Chin, Ting Ling and others are included. The other two volumes in the series are devoted to plays and poems (Volume 1) and essays (Volume 3).

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Book information

ISBN:	9780887100727
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Pub date:	01 Jan 1978
Language:	English
Number of pages:	392
Weight:	575g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	22mm