{"product_id":"reading-wang-wenxing-shu-ning-sciban-9781939161789","title":"Reading Wang Wenxing: Critical Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of his work. The essays cover topics such as Wang's writing principles, typology of characters, analysis of lexicon, employment of stream-of-consciousness, musicality, relationship to Modernist writers of the West, relationship to Lu Xun, and issues of translating Wang's works into Western languages. Original contributions by Wang Wenxing illuminates his own writing through a discussion of his way of reading, and a biographical essay by Ch'en Chu-yun, his wife, who shares with the reader moments in their private life and the writing habits of her husband. In addition, this manuscript appends outlines of Wang's novels and bibliographies that are valuable to both students and scholars in their studies of Wang Wenxing's writing in particular as well as to the understanding of Taiwanese and Chinese literatures in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shu-Ning Sciban\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939161789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939161789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell East Asia Series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.68h x 5.96w x 0.96d","brand":"Shu-Ning Sciban","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453972951295,"sku":"9781939161789","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_14fd92f3-be42-45f4-864e-90c5bbb3fbc9.jpg?v=1777303373","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-wang-wenxing-shu-ning-sciban-9781939161789","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}