Cheng Ch'ing Wen, Cheng (24 results)

Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Shelf wear; previous price written in pencil on the first page, bumps to the dust jacket, internally unmarked.

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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Publisher: Columbia University Press, NY., 1999. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. Remainder marked, otherwise, "As new, Unread". Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. AS NEW HARDCOVER WITH DJ.

Paperback. Condition: New. Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realization. Together, they weave a complex tapestry of life in a rapidly changing country. Cheng Ch'ing-wen's stories tell of men grappling with their fears and frustrations, from "The River Suite," in which a ferryman-championed throughout his small town for twice saving a drowning person-lacks the courage to confess his love to a young woman before she dies, to "Spring Rain," in which a man struggles to come to terms with his seemingly rootless life as both an orphaned child and an infertile husband.Here too are illustrations of the changing place of women in Taiwan, as they take on more powerful roles and awaken to a sense of their own sexuality: a woman forcibly separated from her husband by her jealous mother-in-law walks for hours through the night to see him on his birthday, only to turn back and go straight home before her absence is noticed; a disappointed young female scholar with a deformed hand comes to realize--after many painful rejections--that loneliness is not reason enough to become intimate with a man. And generations clash in "Thunder God's Gonna Getcha," as a mother's cruelty is repaid years later by a son's coldness. Death reverberates throughout these stories as characters recall deceased spouses, lovers, relatives, and friends in vivid detail. The focus, however, is not on the dead but on the living. In the title story, an old man carves exquisite lame horses as both a penance for having terrorized a town as a police officer during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II and a memorial to his deceased wife, who was nobler and more courageous than he.This book is a kind of gallery of three-legged horses: portraits of people maimed and transformed-for better or worse-by the suffering that life brings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second printing. Fine in a near fine dustjacket with minute edgewear. Not priceclipped and no markings. Twelve short stories set in Taiwan. (box 54). Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Three-Legged Horse 0.68. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. This is a new hardback review copy, with a mylar protected DJ.

Condition: new.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 240 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Here are twele moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's 'nativist' writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realization. Together, they weave a complex tapestry of life in a rapidly changing country.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. BH1 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good- condition. A sequence of numbers appears on the copyright page with the "1" present and no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in red paper covered boards quarter bound in red cloth with metallic blue lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front free endpaper, and title page. The dust dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus the front and back endflaps are glued to the fixed endpapers plus there is a library label on the back plus it is still in the origiinal library mylar sleeve. This is a title in the publisher's Modern Literature from Taiwan series. Edited by Pang-yuan Chi. A collection of twelve short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers. They focus primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years. 226p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Condition: New. Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realization. Together, they weave a complex tapestry of life in a rapidly changing country. Cheng Ch'ing-wen's stories tell of men grappling with their fears and frustrations, from "The River Suite," in which a ferryman-championed throughout his small town for twice saving a drowning person-lacks the courage to confess his love to a young woman before she dies, to "Spring Rain," in which a man struggles to come to terms with his seemingly rootless life as both an orphaned child and an infertile husband.Here too are illustrations of the changing place of women in Taiwan, as they take on more powerful roles and awaken to a sense of their own sexuality: a woman forcibly separated from her husband by her jealous mother-in-law walks for hours through the night to see him on his birthday, only to turn back and go straight home before her absence is noticed; a disappointed young female scholar with a deformed hand comes to realize--after many painful rejections--that loneliness is not reason enough to become intimate with a man. And generations clash in "Thunder God's Gonna Getcha," as a mother's cruelty is repaid years later by a son's coldness. Death reverberates throughout these stories as characters recall deceased spouses, lovers, relatives, and friends in vivid detail. The focus, however, is not on the dead but on the living. In the title story, an old man carves exquisite lame horses as both a penance for having terrorized a town as a police officer during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II and a memorial to his deceased wife, who was nobler and more courageous than he.This book is a kind of gallery of three-legged horses: portraits of people maimed and transformed-for better or worse-by the suffering that life brings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. This is a Review Copy (Publisher's Publicity materials laid-in) of the 1999 Kiriyama Fiction Prize winner. Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Vheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A bright, clean copy with some rubbing on the cover.

Softcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Oblong quarto (9 1/2 x 10 1/4"). [4]pp (Title and Introduction); [48]pp (Plates); [2]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind wrappers. Illustrated with 48 striking photogravures (13 in full color) depicting some of the most spectacular and dizzying views of China, this scarce Spanish-language photo-book* takes us on a journey filled with the richness and diversity of its landscapes and culture. Dust-jacket partly rubbed along edges, with close tear and minor chipping at head of spine. Text in Spanish. Dust-jacket in overall good, wrappers and interior in very good condition. * The book is not in Parr, and OCLC indicates only three libraries worlwide owning it.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 269 pages Size: 23cm.