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Subject(s)

• Chinese fiction—20th century—Bio-bibliography—Dictionaries [Browse]
• Novelists, Chinese—20th century—Biography—Dictionaries [Browse]
• Chinese fiction—20th century—Dictionaries [Browse]

Related name

• Moran, Thomas, 1957- [Browse]
• Xu, Ye. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Series

• Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 370. [More in this series]
• Dictionary of literary biography, 1096-8547 ; v. 370 [More in this series]

Summary note

Bio-bibliographical guide covering the lives and works of Chinese writers of contemporary Chinese literature. The authors covered all had well-established careers by the 1990s; most captured their audiences and gained critical recognition in the 1970s and 1980s. The economic, political, and social changes of the 1990s, including the commercialization of literature and the relaxation of limits on expression, had great influence on the literature of these writers.

Notes

"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Bai Xianjong (1937- ) / Steven L. Riep
• Can Xue (1953- ) / Todd Foley
• Chen Ran (1962- ) / Nathaniel Isaacson
• Chen Yingzhen (1937- ) / Christopher Lupke
• Chi Li (1957- ) / Rui Kunzi
• Feng Jicai (1942- ) / Roland Altenburger
• Gao Xingjian (1940- ) / Thomas Moran
• Ge Fei (1964- ) / Paola Iovene
• Han Shaogong (1953- ) / Zhang Jingyuan
• Huang Chunming (1935- ) / Christopher Lupke
• Jia Pingwa (1952- ) / Yiyan Wang
• Jin Yong (1924- ) / Weijie Song
• Li Ang (1952- ) / Rosemary M. Haddon
• Li Qiao (1934- ) / Bert M. Scruggs
• Li Yongping (1947- ) / Tee Kim Tong
• Liu Heng (1954- ) / Thomas Moran
• Ma Yuan (1953- ) / Rong Cai
• Mo Yan (1955- ) / Andrea Riemenschnitter
• Qidengsheng (1939- ) / Chao-mei Tu
• Shi Tiesheng (1951-2010) / Bert M. Scruggs
• Wang Anyi (1954- ) / Bai Di
• Wang Meng (1934- ) / Donghui He
• Wang Shuo (1958- ) / Rosa Lombardi
• Wang Wenxing (1939- ) / Carles Prado-Fonts
• Wang Zengqi (1920-1997) / Steven Day
• Yan Lianke (1958- ) / Jiang Chenxin
• Yu Hua (1960- ) / Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg
• Zhang Chengzhi (1948- ) / Xinmin Liu
• Zhang Jie (1937- ) / Eva Shan Chou
• Zhang Xianliang (1936- ) / Philip F. Williams
• Zheng Yi (1947- ) / Perry Link
• Zhong Lihe (1915-1960) / Terence Russell
• Zhu Tianwen (1956- ) / Thomas Moran.

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ISBN

• 9780787696450 (hardcover)
• 0787696455 (hardcover)

LCCN

2012036364

OCLC

812017954

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