Wintry night / Li Qiao ; translated from the Chinese by Taotao Liu & John Balcom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Qiao, 1934-

Series:

Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan

Standardized Title:

Han yeh. English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Li, Qiao, 1934---Translations into English.

Li, Qiao.

Li, Qiao, 1934-.

Physical Description:

291 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]

Summary:

An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the

fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before

Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers -- and the colonization of Taiwan itself -- exploring their relationships with the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan and their struggle to establish their own ethnic and

political identities.

This edition is an abridgement for English-speaking readers and marks the work's first appearance in the

English-speaking world. An introduction explaining the cultural and historical background of the novel is included to help orient the reader to this amazingly rich cultural context.

ISBN:

0231122004

OCLC:

43845536