Isbn: 9780231138499 - loud sparrows: contemporary chinese short-shorts (weatherhead books on asia) (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 272 pages. 9.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'If sparrows are but a metaphor, every writer faces the challenge of reality, which is to say, how one catches this sparrow.' So writes Bei Dao in his preface to 'Loud Sparrows,' a spirited collection of ninety-one short-shorts, an exciting new form of extreme short-storytelling that has swept the creative consciousness of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The artistic and aesthetic freedoms of short-shorts enable writers to capture the tone, texture, and chaos of their rapidly changing societies in infinitely inventive ways. Written by Chinese authors over the past three decades, the stories in this anthology are culled from newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and personal collections, and their subjects range from humanist ideals and traditional virtues to the material benefits of a commercialized society.…

Zustand: New. A collection of ninety-one short-shorts, which range from the mundane to the sublime and illuminate various things from humanist ideals to traditional virtues to the material benefits of a commercialized society.&Uumlber den AutorAi.