Mu Shiying: China's Lost Modernist

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Shanghai's "Literary Comet" When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of the city's Jazz-Age nightlife. Mu's highly original stream-of-consciousness approach to short story writing deserves to be re-examined and re-read. As Andrew Field argues, Mu advanced modern Chinese writing beyond the vernacular expression of May Fourth giants...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:9888208144

ISBN13:9789888208142

Release Date:March 2014

Publisher:Hong Kong University Press

Length:188 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.2" x 7.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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