Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949

Edited by Joseph S. M. Lau, C. T. Hsia and Leo Ou-Fan

Brings together some of the best and most historically significant works of short fiction written in China in this century -including such important figures in the development of Chinese modernism as Lu Hsün, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and Shen Ts' ung-wen. The companion volume to the highly acclaimed (Columbia, 1978), this new volume presents modernist short fiction from the thirty-year period leading up to the Communist revolution of 1949, after which Chinese literature entered a new phase of development. The stories range in setting from the late Ch'ing dynasty through the Sino-Japanese War and the early Communist years, and range in length from brief tales to substantial short novels. Though a large number of the writers represented are leftists, works of all political viewpoints have been included to provide the full literary panorama of one of the most fertile periods of Chinese creative activity.

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• East Asian Studies

About the Author

Joseph S. M. Lau is co-editor with Y.W. Ma of Traditional Chinese Stories.C. T. Hsia is editor of Twentieth-Century Chinese Stories and author of The Classic Chinese Novel and A History of Modern Chinese Fiction.Leo Ou-fan Lee is author of The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers.

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