Pang-yuan The Great Flowing River

A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54781-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any other. The noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan in a novelistic, epoch-defining narrative.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pang-yuan, Chi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Balcom, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Edition
Translator’s Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. My Homeland in Song
2. A Journey of Blood and Tears: The Eight Years of the War of Resistance
3. With Me, China Shall Not Perish: Nankai Middle School
4. At the Confluence of Three Rivers: University Life
5. Victory: Empty, Everything Is Empty
6. Taiwan Trials and Hardships
7. Spiritual Descendants
8. University Teaching, Taiwan, and Literature
9. Confirmation of This Life: From the Great Flowing River to the Sea of Silence
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pang-yuan Chi:
Chi Pang-Yuan is professor Emeritus of comparative literature and English at National Taiwan University. In collaboration with David Wang, she published The Last of the Whampoa Breed: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora (CUP, 2003) and Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey (Indiana University Press, 2000).Balcom John:
John Balcom is professor of Chinese-English translation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He has translated a number of books, including Wintry Night by Li Qiao, The City Trilogy by Chang His-kuo, and Taiwan’s Indigenous Writers: An Anthology of Stories, Essays, and Poems.Chi Pang-yuan (b. 1924) is an internationally recognized educator, scholar, and author. She is professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at National Taiwan University. She is coeditor of Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey (2000) and The Last of the Whampoa Breed: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora (Columbia, 2003), among other books.

John Balcom teaches at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His Columbia University Press translations include Cao Naiqian’s There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night (2009); Huang Fan’s Zero and Other Fictions (2011); and Yang Mu’s Memories of Mount Qilai: The Education of a Young Poet (2015).