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Exiles at Home
Yingzhen Chen
Lucien Miller
其他書名
Stories
出版
Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
, 2002
主題
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Literary Collections / Asian / General
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
ISBN
0892641592
9780892641598
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jN3kAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
When
Exiles at Home
first appeared in 1986, Ch'en Ying-chen was already hailed as a central figure in the Native Literature movement in Taiwan. Ch'en, who spent seven years in prison on political "subversion" charges, is known for his often brutal honesty about rural poverty and the bland hypocrisies of the middle class. Deeply moral, Ch'en's nine stories here capture his personal alienation, touching on issues of racism, business ethics, and social nonconformity that continue to worry Chinese society on both sides of the straits. Lucien Miller's translation deftly conveys the force and the spirit of Ch'en's prose; his colloquial American English suits Ch'en's jabs at Taiwan's Americanization. This was the first collection of Ch'en's stories to appear in English and its stories still challenge readers with Ch'en's keen social consciousness and commitment to the Chinese literary tradition.