Shen Congwen (1902–1988)
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Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Originally from hunnu.edu.cn
Opere di Shen Congwen
Selected Short Stories of Shen Congwen (Bilingual Series in Modern Chinese Literature) (2004) 15 copie
25 2 copie
沈從文文選 1 copia
Autobiography of Shen Congwen (Collected Works of Shen Congwen) (Hardcover) (Chinese Edition) (2013) 1 copia
边城 (Chinese Edition) 1 copia
Shen Congwen Family Correspondence ('Shen cong-wen jia shu', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English) (1998) 1 copia
Nouvelles 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Shen Congwen
- Altri nomi
- Shen Ts'ung-wen
沈從文 - Data di nascita
- 1902-12-28
- Data di morte
- 1988-05-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- China
- Nazione (per mappa)
- China
- Luogo di nascita
- Fenghuang, Hunan, China
- Luogo di morte
- Beijing, China
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 28
- Utenti
- 186
- Popolarità
- #116,758
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 69
- Lingue
- 6
- Preferito da
- 1
I was particularly interested in reading this account of peasant life in China before the revolution, because I wanted to make a comparison to Pearl Buck's Good Earth. Both accounts were written about the same period in China and both were written in the 1930s, but one was written by a Chinese man and the other by an American woman (whose first language and home was in China). I found them so vastly different that they might have been written about completely different peoples and times.
It was difficult for me to see why this novel would have been banned by the Communist government that took over China. It seems so innocuous in its content and portrayal of these people. When I had finished reading it, I wondered if there was some deeper meaning that I was failing to see. I had loved the opening sentence so much that I expected to be in love with this novel by its end, but I was not. It plodded somewhat and I felt the characters were underdeveloped. Still, an interesting look at what a Chinese writer believed the peasant class was like before the country endured the upheaval of the revolution.… (altro)