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It truly opened up a new field and prepared the way for generations of American scholars to do research. We are all in his debt.\" —Leo Lee  This pioneering, classic study of 20th-century Chinese fiction covers some sixty years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50450807521553,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50450810208529,"sku":"CIN0253213118G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52383659458833,"sku":"CIN0253213118VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0253213118.jpg?v=1752315983"},{"product_id":"history-of-modern-chinese-fiction-book-c-t-hsia-9780253334770","title":"A History of Modern Chinese Fiction","description":"\"The great virtue of this book is that it provides a practical acquaintance with the writing itself by means of copious passages of translation from representative novels\". - New York Times Book Review. \"C. T. Hsia's book is by now an acknowledged classic. It truly opened up a new field and prepared the way for generations of American scholars to do research. We are all in his debt.\" - Leo Lee. \"Thirty-eight years after it was published, C. T. Hsia's, \"A History of Modern Chinese Fiction\" remains unsurpassed in its field. No book in any language has done more to shape our fundamental conceptions of modern Chinese literary art. Hsia's astute insights and graceful writing make the book enjoyable as well as deeply edifying.\" - Perry Link. First published in 1961, and reissued in new editions several times, \"A History of Modern Chinese Fiction\" is the pioneering, classic study of twentieth-century Chinese fiction. It covers some sixty years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76. C. T. Hsia examines the major writers from Lu Hsun to Eileen Chang and selected works of representative importance since 1949 from both mainland China and Taiwan. Professor David T. Roy hailed the book in the Christian Science Monitor when it was first published, and his comments are as relevant today as they were then: \"The publication of C. T. Hsia's book is an event of the first importance. It has the distinction of being the first serious study of modern Chinese fiction in English. It also has the rarer distinction of being the best study of its subject available in any language. No more ambitious attempt to apply the principles of modern Western literary criticism to the study of Chinese literature has ever been made. 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Many Western classics are cited for relevant comparison, and generous excerpts from each novel, most of them newly translated, permit the reader to sample the flavor of the original. Hailed as a classic upon its publication in 1968, The Classic Chinese Novel has remained the best single-volume critical introduction to the subject for the serious student as well as the cultivated reader.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52694625583377,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52694625714449,"sku":"NGR9789629966577","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789629966577.jpg?v=1762386662"},{"product_id":"classic-chinese-novel-book-c-t-hsia-9780231086691","title":"Classic Chinese Novel","description":"C. T. 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Hailed as a classic upon its publication in 1968, The Classic Chinese Novel has remained the best single-volume critical introduction to the subject for the serious student as well as the cultivated reader.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53338387874065,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53338388037905,"sku":"GOR011860685","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780231086691.jpg?v=1774362589"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-c-t-hsia.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}