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Selected Short Stories of Shen Congwen

Selected Short Stories of Shen Congwen

Shen, Congwen
Kinkley, Jeffrey

Paperback

Series: Bilingual Modern Chinese Literature

Literary CriticismGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Fiction

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ISBN10: 9629961105
ISBN13: 9789629961107
Publisher: Chinese Univ Of Hong Kong Pr
Published: Apr 21 2004
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Shen Congwen (1902?-1988) is one of modern China's great writers. He is also one of the finest Chinese prose stylists of all time. Literary critics and historians have offered several reasons for why Shen Congwen is a great writer. The foremost explanation is his power as a stylist. He could make the Chinese language beautiful.

Some critics have praised Shen Congwen for creating characters with beautiful souls. Readers credit him with having described beautiful and fulfilling styles of life, even in materially primitive surroundings, that conjure up the health and dignity prized by the Crescent Moon writers. Other critics value Shen Congwen as a realist writer. He has written many works exposing the abuses of the military in the countryside, and the vanity of the urban bourgeoisie.

Most of the short stories in this collection, typeset in bilingual format, reveal the plight and the strength of the common people. They were chosen from the period when Shen had already honed a fine writing style, and they were written about rural folks in his native region, and about people he knew from his daily life. There are contradictions between the new and the old, and also between human values with enough integrity to nurture life, versus corruption that leads to the decline and death of a culture.

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