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China's Avant-Garde Fiction

An Anthology
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1998

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An anthology of translated short stories from Chinese writers of the 1980s. Authors considered “avant-garde” because work reflects the seriousness of revolutionary concerns, the disinterest in the progress of the Chinese nation and celebra

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Jing Wang is Associate Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature at Duke University. She is the author of The Story of Stone, also published by Duke University Press, and of High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng’s China.

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“This collection is bound to create an impact on the direction of research in Chinese literary studies. And Jing’s perceptive discussion of this school’s artistic and historical relevances is likely to become standard reference for future explorations of recent literary developments in China.”—Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, University of Texas at Austin

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction

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    Jing Wang
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    REMEMBERING MR. WU YOU

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    Ge Fei
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    GREEN YELLOW

    23
    Ge Fei
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    WHISTLING

    43
    Ge Fei
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    THE NOON OF HOWLING WIND

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    Yu Hua
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    1986

    74
    Yu Hua
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    THIS STORY IS FOR WILLOW

    114
    Yu Hua
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    FLYING OVER MAPLE VILLAGE

    147
    Su Tong
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    THE BIRTH OF THE WATER GOD

    160
    Su Tong
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    THE BROTHERS SHU

    173
    Su Tong
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    THE HUT ON THE MOUNTAIN

    212
    Can Xue
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    TH E BIG DRUGSTORE

    217
    Bei Cun
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    I AM A YOUNG DRUNKARD

    235
    Sun Ganlu
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    MORE WAYS THAN ONE TO MAKE A KITE

    246
    Ma Yuan
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    A WANDERING SPIRIT

    264
    Ma Yuan
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    Acknowledgment of Copyrights

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    Contributors

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