Catalogue of Chinese Manuscripts and Rare Books

May 8, 2017 by China-Underground

This massive work is a representative selection of 335 items from the vast holdings of Chinese manuscripts and rare books held at the Royal Library, … Read more

Wu Song Fights the Tiger

April 29, 2017 by China-Underground

The focus of Chinese literary studies has long been on the written word even though Chinese fiction and drama have strong oral roots and have … Read more

Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller’s Script by Vibeke Børdahl and Liangyan Ge

April 20, 2017 by China-Underground

This mammoth study is a major contribution to the study of Chinese literature, making available to scholars a rare storyteller’s script from the late Qing … Read more

The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature

September 8, 2017September 14, 2016 by China-Underground

This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language.
Read moreThe Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature

The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction

September 8, 2017September 14, 2016 by China-Underground

In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng discusses representations of women in May Fourth fiction, issues of gender, modernity, individualism, subjectivity, and narrative strategy.
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The Autobiography of Ba Jin

September 8, 2017September 14, 2016 by China-Underground

“The Autobiography of Ba Jin was originally written in Chinese by the famed 20th century Mainland Chinese author (Ba Jin) in 1934 when he was only 30.
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Capturing Chinese Short Stories from Lu Xun’s Nahan

December 10, 2018July 28, 2016 by China-Underground

Finally a book to help you read original Chinese literature. Footnotes highlight the more difficult vocabulary and pinyin is provided for the entire text. There … Read more

The True Story of Lu Xun

December 10, 2018July 28, 2016 by China-Underground

This is the first independent, full-life biography of Lu Xun, the most celebrated Chinese writer of the twentieth century, in any European language. It sets … Read more

Ah Q Archaeology

December 10, 2018July 28, 2016 by China-Underground

Lu Xun, Ah Q, Ah Q Progeny, and the National Character Discourse in Twentieth Century China

Capturing Chinese Stories

December 10, 2018July 28, 2016 by China-Underground

Prose and Poems by Revolutionary Chinese Authors Including Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Zhu Ziqing, Zhou Zuoren, and Lin Yutang

Chinese literature

This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language.Read moreThe Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature

In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng discusses representations of women in May Fourth fiction, issues of gender, modernity, individualism, subjectivity, and narrative strategy.Read moreThe New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction

“The Autobiography of Ba Jin was originally written in Chinese by the famed 20th century Mainland Chinese author (Ba Jin) in 1934 when he was only 30.Read moreThe Autobiography of Ba Jin

This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language.
Read moreThe Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature

In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng discusses representations of women in May Fourth fiction, issues of gender, modernity, individualism, subjectivity, and narrative strategy.
Read moreThe New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction

“The Autobiography of Ba Jin was originally written in Chinese by the famed 20th century Mainland Chinese author (Ba Jin) in 1934 when he was only 30.
Read moreThe Autobiography of Ba Jin