Short Stories in Chinese

BALCOM,JOHN

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Author
BALCOM,JOHN
Publish Date
08/01/2011
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
PENGUIN
Subtitle
New Penguin Parallel Text
Number of Pages
272
Edition
Bilingual
ISBN-10
0143118358
ISBN-13
9780143118350
SKU
9780143118350

Description

A dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first time

This new volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature from the world’s most spoken language, without having to constantly to refer back to a dictionary.

The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well-known writers as well as emerging voices. From a story by Li Rui about the honest simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to one by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society, they are infused with both rural dialect and urban slang and feature a wide range of styles and points of view.

Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language.