Skip to:Content
|
Bottom
Cover image for Humans, beasts, and ghosts : stories and essays
Title:
Humans, beasts, and ghosts : stories and essays
Author:
Qian, Zhongshu, 1910-1998.
ISBN:
9780231526548
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 220 pages).
Series:
Weatherhead books on Asia.
General Note:
This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human, beast, ghost (Ren shou gui)."
Abstract:
Zhongshu Qian was one of twentieth-century China's most ingenious literary stylists, the author of short stories, essays, and a brilliant comedic novel that has inspired generations of Chinese readers. Writing between the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Communist takeover in 1949, Qian was a pioneering modernist and extraordinary satirist whose insight into the irony and travesties of modern China remains stunningly fresh. This eagerly awaited translation joins Qian's collection of iconoclastic essays on life, language, and literature, Written on t.
Added Title:
Written in the margins of life.

Human, beast, ghost.
Holds:
Copies:

Available:*

Library
Material Type
Item Barcode
Shelf Number
Status
Item Holds
Searching...
E-Book 376107-1001 ONLINE
Searching...

On Order

Go to:Top of Page