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Chapters: List of Chinese Language Poets, Lu Xun, Lao She, Mao Dun, Han Han, Ye Shengtao, Gao Xingjian, Ba Jin, Zhang Chengzhi, Vivibear, Young John Allen, Hualing Nieh Engle, Wu Cheng'en, Guo Quan, Cao Xueqin, Ding Ling, George Kao, Bei Dao, Hai Zi, Xu Zhimo, Xiao Hong, Mo Yan, Zhang Tianyi, Huang Chunming, Chiung Yao, Yang Hengjun, Li Qingzhao, Li Yu, Yu Hua, Shen Congwen, Wang Tuoh, Chen Yingzhen, Guan Hanqing, Su Xuelin, Su Tong, Zhang Jie, Ge Fei, Jiang Gui, Pu Songling, Guo Guoting, Chu Hsi-Ning, Shen Haobo, Li Ang, Shen Fu, Shi Naian, Yu Lihua, Jiang Yan, Zhang Yingtai, Wang Wenhua, Wang Zhenhe, Ma Sen, Huang Fan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 211. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lu Xun (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: L Xùn) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Zhu Shùrén; Wade-Giles: Chou Shu-jen) (September 25, 1881 October 19, 1936) is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua () (the vernacular) as well as classical Chinese. Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, critic, essayist and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the Chinese League of the Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai. Lu Xun's works exerted a very substantial influence after the May Fourth Movement to such a point that he was lionized by the Communist regime after 1949. Mao Zedong himself was a lifelong admirer of Lu Xun's works. Though sympathetic to the ideals of the Left, Lu Xun never actually joined the Chinese Communist Party - like fellow leaders of the May Fourth Movement, he was primarily a liberal. Lu Xun's works are known to English readers through numerous translations, especially Se...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=65861 ... Read more

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Chapters: Song Yingxing, Gao Xingjian, Wang Zuo, Zeng Qinghong, Zhang Guotao, Wang Anshi, Tao Kan, Ma Liwen, Chuan-Chih Hsiung, Tao Qian, Hu Xiaomei, Yang Wenjun, François Cheng, Chen Li-An, Edgar Tang, He Hanbin, He Zizhen, Tan Lun, Mei Ju-Ao, Liu Tao, Peng Bo, Ouyang Kunpeng, Li Liejun, Ch'eng Mao-Yün, Zhang Xun, Wang Dongxing, Wu Jingyu, Xiao Gang, Tao Yujia, Luo Jialun, Gao Yulan, Kong Dan, Zhang Li, Chen Baozhen, Li Zuopeng, Geng Hongbin, Min Zhen, Zhang Zhiwu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 130. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Song Yingxing (Traditional Chinese:; Simplified Chinese:; Wade Giles: Sung Ying-Hsing; 1587-1666 AD), born in Yichun of Jiangxi, was a Chinese scientist and encyclopedist who lived during the late Ming Dynasty (13681644). He was the author of an encyclopedia that covered a wide variety of technical subjects, including the use of gunpowder weapons. Comparing him to the famous French encyclopedist Denis Diderot, the British sinologist and historian Joseph Needham called Song Yingxing, "The Diderot of China." Song Yingxing achieved only modest wealth and influence during his life. Born in 1587 to a gentry family of reduced circumstances, he participated in the imperial examinations, and passed the provincial test in 1615, at the age of 28. However, he was repeatedly unsuccessful in the metropolitan examination. Song sat for the test five times, the last being in 1631 at the age of 44. After this last failure, he held a series of minor positions in provincial government. The works for which Song is known today all date from 1636 to 1637. The repeated trips to the capital to participate in the metropolitan examination likely provided him with the broad base of knowledge demonstrated in the works. Song retired from public life in 1644, after the fall of t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8611724 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Gao Xingjian, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1460 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Editorial ReviewsAs one of Gao Xingjian's characters remarks, if a fiction writer could know the true stories of the people he passes on the street, he would be amazed. Surely the Nobel laureate's own story, which forms the basis of Soul Mountain, is worthy of amazement. In 1983 Gao was diagnosed with lung cancer, the disease that had killed his father. At the same time, he had been threatened with arrest for his counterrevolutionary writings and was preparing to flee Beijing for the remote regions of southwest China. Shortly before his departure, however, the condemned man got at least a partial reprieve: a second set of x-rays revealed no cancer at all. On the heels of this extraordinary redemption, he began the circuitous journey that would lead him to the sacred (and possibly mythical) mountain of Lingshan--and to this daring, historically resonant novel. A destination chosen arbitrarily, at the suggestion of a fellow traveler, the elusive Lingshan becomes rich with meaning for the narrator of Soul Mountain. Meanwhile, the narrator himself shows a tendency to go forth and multiply. First he divides into You and I. Then You generates yet a third voice, a somewhat simple but intense young woman named She, followed by He--and none of these personae can resist the elemental lure of the sacred site. Indeed, the search for Lingshan becomes a metaphor for all spiritual striving: when thousands of monuments, temples, and graves were reduced to rubble. The obliteration of these reminders of the dead becomes a torment to the narrators of the novel, who struggle to assert their individuality--itself a proscribed act in Communist China--against what they see as a false and brutal ideal that has swept away history, literature, and tradition as decisively as it has destroyed the ancient forestscality. --Regina Marler--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. ... Read more

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the new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of international bestseller Soul MountainThe unnamed narrator of this book recalls his Beijing boyhood, his tenth birthday, the death of his grandfather, the accidental drowning of his mother and the effect all this trauma had on the frail, sensitive young boy he was then. He then pulls us forward in time to view the sexually active adult he has become, engaged in a series of difficult relationships, in constant trouble with the Chinese authorities, and in danger of being marked out as a 'counter-revolutionary'. The book moves between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution insanities of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the tentative, limited liberations of the 1990s, and the narrator moves between China, Hong Kong, Paris and Frankfurt. Through it all throbs an overwhelmingly powerful sense of the past, distant and near, and a moving and unprecedented insight into the character of modern China.Gao has his narrator say of the book's purpose: 'Your writing is not in the cause of pure literature, but you're also not a fighter using your pen as a weapon to promote right, moreover you don't know what's right.You know you're certainly not the embodiment of right and you write simply to indicate that a sort of life worse than a quagmire, more real than an imaginary hell, more terrifying than the judgement of the last day has existed. Furthermore, it's highly likely that after people have forgotten about it, it will make a comeback, and people who've never gone crazy will go crazy again, and people who've never been oppressed will oppress or be oppressed. This is because madness has existed since the birth of humanity.' ... Read more

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Chapters: Eileen Chang, Lao She, Qian Zhongshu, Mao Dun, Jin Shengtan, Jin Yong, Han Han, Gao Xingjian, Ba Jin, Wang Shiwei, Lin Yutang, Han Suyin, Hualing Nieh Engle, Xi Xi, Wu Cheng'en, Xiaolu Guo, Nelson Ikon Wu, Qu Bo, Wei Wei, Cao Xueqin, Liang Yusheng, Wang Shuo, Xiao Hong, Sanmao, Bing Xin, Mo Yan, Hong Ying, Yuan Hongbing, Zhang Tianyi, Luo Guanzhong, Lan Samantha Chang, Dai Sijie, Wang Anyi, Chiung Yao, ni Kuang, Wang Ping, Mo Xuanqing, Qiu Xiaolong, Cui Zi En, Li Yu, Lin Haiyin, Cong Weixi, Zhang Xinxin, Li Dawei, Zhou Weihui, Yu Hua, Zhang Ziping, Chen Yingzhen, Zhang Henshui, Liu E, Liu Sola, Han Shaogong, Yin Lichuan, Yi Shu, Feng Jicai, Yang Jiang, Geling Yan, Wu Jingzi, Liu Yichang, Jia Pingwa, Wang Xiaobo, Fan Wu, Feng Menglong, Zhao Shuli, Mian Mian, Wang Meng, Su Tong, Li Ruzhen, Zhang Jie, Ge Fei, Duanmu Hongliang, Qu You, Ke Yan, Lilian Lee, Xu Zhonglin, Chi Li, Shi Naian, Chen Jingrong, Zhang Yingtai, Shi Kang, Zhao Jingshen, Fu Tianlin, Bian Jinyang, Zhang Dachun, Zu Lin, Shi Tiesheng. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 312. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Names This is a Chinese name; the family name is Cha.Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Zh Liángyng; born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (Chinese: ; pinyin: Jn Yng; Cantonese Yale: Gm Yùhng), is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Co-founder of the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao, which he started in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief. Cha's fiction, which is of the Wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His fifteen works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest Wuxia ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=349150 ... Read more