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A Garden of One's Own A Collection of Modern Chinese Essays, 1919-1949

Title
A Garden of One's Own [electronic resource] : A Collection of Modern Chinese Essays, 1919-1949 / edited and translated by Tam King-fai.
Publication
  • Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013.
  • Hong Kong [China] : Chinese University Press, [2012]

Available Online

  • Available from home with a valid library card
  • Available onsite at NYPL

Details

Additional Authors
  • Tam, King-fai.
  • Project Muse.
Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (vii, 279 pages).)
Summary
Fifty essays by thirty Chinese writers bring to vivid life a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. Unlike the more thematically social and political fiction of the May Fourth movement, these xiaopin wen, or modern essays, address their readers with a unique intimacy, adopting a highly "personal" voice that is quietly meditative, lyrical, discreet, and full of wit and melancholy. Tam King-fai supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement, and with and commentary he explicates the form's lyric aestheticism.
Uniform Title
  • Garden of One's Own (Online)
  • Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject
  • Politics in literature
  • Republicanism in literature
  • Chinese essays > Translations into English
  • Chinese essays > 20th century
  • China > History > May Fourth movement, 1919
Note
  • Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-279).
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the Chinese.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
OCLC
ssj0001618275
Title
A Garden of One's Own [electronic resource] : A Collection of Modern Chinese Essays, 1919-1949 / edited and translated by Tam King-fai.
Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Hong Kong [China] : Chinese University Press, [2012] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-279).
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Language
Translated from the Chinese.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Tam, King-fai.
Project Muse.
Other Form:
Print version: 9789629964238
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