China's avant-garde fiction

Type
Book
Authors
Wang ( Jing )
 
Category
830-899 Other Literature  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1998 
Publisher
Pages
283 pages 
Subject
Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English. Experimental fiction. Chinese fiction. 
Abstract
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing outlandish Tibetan myths, these stories are defined by their devotion to theatrics and their willful apathy toward 
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Experimental fiction
Translations
Translations into English
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
China's avant-garde fiction.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1998
(OCoLC)605409895
Named Person: Anthologie
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jing Wang
ISBN: 0822321165 9780822321163 0822321009 9780822321002
OCLC Number: 37499949
Description: 283 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Remembering Mr. Wu You ; Green yellow ; Whistling / Ge Fei --
The noon of howling wind ; 1986 ; This story is for Willow / Yu Hua --
Flying over Maple Village ; The birth of the water god ; The brothers Shu / Su Tong --
The hut on the mountain / Can Xue --
The big drugstore / Bei Cun --
I am a young drunkard / Sun Ganlu --
More ways than one to make a kite ; A wandering spirit / Ma Yuan.
Responsibility: edited by Jing Wang.  
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