A garden of one's own : a collection of modern Chinese essays, 1919-1949 / edited and translated by Tam King-fai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tam, King-fai, editor.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese essays--Translations into English.

Chinese essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sha Tin New Town, Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

In English and Chinese.

Summary:

Fifty essays by thirty Chinese writers bring to vivid life a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. Unlike the more thematically social and political fiction of the May Fourth movement, these xiaopin wen, or modern essays, address their readers with a unique intimacy, adopting a highly "personal" voice that is quietly meditative, lyrical, discreet, and full of wit and melancholy. Tam King-fai supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement, and with and commentary he explicates the form's lyric aestheticism.

Contents:

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Essays

1. Lu Xun

2. Xia Mianzun

3. Zhou Zuoren

4. Xu Dishan

5. Ye Shengtao

6. Lin Yutang

7. Zhang Henshui

8. Mao Dun

9. Xu Zhimo

10. Yu Dafu

11. Su Xuelin

12. Feng Zikai

13. Lu Yin

14. Zheng Zhenduo

15. Zhu Ziqing

16. Lao She

17. Bing Xin

18. Yu Pingbo

19. Fang Lingru

20. Liang Shiqiu

21. Zhu Xiang

22. Ba Jin

23. Ye Lingfeng

24. Li Guangtian

25. Liang Yuchun

26. Wu Boxiao

27. Lu Li

28. Qian Zhongshu

29. He Qifang

30. Su Qing

31. Zhang Ailing

Works Cited.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-279).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789629969769

9629969769

9789629969080

9629969084

OCLC:

868220007