Fortress Besieged
$40.33
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
24 May 2006
Summary
‘Qian’s ability to see his life and times through the lens of very dark humour, along with his talent for incidental cultural and social observation and his cold and cruel wit, mark out this novel as one of its time’s most original works’ - The Independent
Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien, who after aimlessly studying in Europe at his family’s expense returns to Shanghai armed with a bog…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141187860 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141187867 |
| Author: | Qian Zhongshu, Jonathan Spence, Jeanne Kelly, Nathan K. Mao |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 24 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Qian Zhongshu
Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998) was a novelist, poet, man of letters and one of China’s most outstanding scholars and was seen by many in his country as the last link in an unbroken chain of geniuses stretching back to Confucius.
Jeanne Kelly published translations of both classical and modern Chinese short stories before beginning the translation of Fortress Besieged.
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