Author: John Balcom

Title: Short Stories in Chinese

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 272

Release Date: 2013-06-25

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780143118350

Package Dimensions: Height: 7.56 Inches, Length: 0.72 Inches, Weight: 0.48942622164 Pounds, Width: 5.3 Inches