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Wintry Night
Hardcover
Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780231122009
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Mar 7 2001
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the
fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before
Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers -- and the colonization of Taiwan itself -- exploring their relationships with the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan and their struggle to establish their own ethnic and
political identities.
This edition is an abridgement for English-speaking readers and marks the work's first appearance in the
English-speaking world. An introduction explaining the cultural and historical background of the novel is included to help orient the reader to this amazingly rich cultural context.
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