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Selected Works of Ba Jin, Vol 2: Garden of Repose, Bitter Cold Nights
Ba Jin; Pa Chin; Li Yaotang; Li Fei-Kan; Jock Hoe (trans); Sidney Shapiro (trans)
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- First Edition
Seller: Books of the World, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.Books of the World
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Foreign Languages Press, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Int…erior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages. Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family home to a businessman, and the businessman's son, a spoiled and rude boy. The drug addict squats in an abandoned temple and is beaten to death in the streets; the boy falls down a garden well and drowns. Cold Nights portrays a Chinese Everyman's slow death by tuberculosis; his consumption apparently caused less by the bacteria in his lungs than by the debilitative generational tensions of Republican China. The protagonist is torn between his traditional mother and his modern wife. With air raid alarms sounding through the cold winter nights, it is the arguments between mother and daughter-in-law in their small apartment that are the most corrosive and frustrating as relationships deteriorate in the social depression and ennui that pervade 1940s China. Ba Jin was the grand old man of Chinese literature from the heady years of the real cultural revolution in the 1920s and 1930s. Born into a large, wealthy Sichuanese clan, he was raised in a compound with as many as 100 relatives: the despotic grandfather, his two wives, all the adult sons and their wives and children, and eventually the grandchildren, plus dozens of servants. Family feuds broke out when Ba's grandfather died and authority was eventually transferred to an elder uncle. Ba Jin read widely and was deeply influenced by Piotr Kropotkin's famous pamphlet, "An Appeal to the Young." He called Emma Goldman his "spiritual mother" and engaged in a lifelong correspondence with her. After moving to Paris in his early 20s, he joined a group of young Chinese anarchists adopted the name Ba Jin: Ba from the first syllable in the surname of Mikhail Bakunin, and Jin for the last syllable of Kropotkin. Huang Yinghao (illustrator).
Published by ??????????.[Wai yu jiao xue yu yan jiu chu ban she]., ??.[Beijing]., 1983
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Add to basket78pp, notes, covers little faded, good in wrappers. 18.4 x 12.8cm.
Published by Australia China Society n/d (c. 1972), 1972
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Add to basketOctavo stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
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Add to basketpaperback. Condition: Good. Ship out in 2 business day, And Fast shipping, Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Paperback. Pub Date :1983-12 Pages: 78 Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press 63 to the back cover of the lower-right corner of slight traces of waterFour Satisfaction guaranteed,or… money back.
College of Arts English coursebook: (in ancient times - 1840)(Chinese Edition)(Old-Used)
Jock Hoe ZHU SHAN DONG DA XUE GONG GONG WAI YU JIAO YAN SHI WEN KE ZU ZHU SHI
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Add to basketpaperback. Condition: Good. Pub Date: 1983 Pages: 78 Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press title page with a signet.
