Ye Zhaoyan
Autor von Nanjing 1937: A Love Story
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Ye Zhaoyan is one of China's bestselling and most acclaimed writers. Born and based in Nanjing, he graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University. Many of his books have been translated into English and other languages, including A Flower's Shade (Simon mehr anzeigen Schuster), Nanjing 1937: A Love Story (Columbia University Press), How Stubborn Our Hearts (Simon Schuster), Other People's Love (Simon Schuster). It is worth mentioning that YE Zhaoyan is the grandson of YE Shengtao (1894-1988), one of China's most influential educators, founder of the Association for Literary Studies, the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement (1919) in China. weniger anzeigen
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Nanjing 1937: A Love Story von Ye Zhaoyan
As with the few Chinese novels I've read, I find the beginning promising, the middle uneventful and the ending open interpretation. The translator helped me to understand the author's intention: "The year 1937 saw not only the fall of the ancient capital of Nanjing but also the pinnacle of its development .... leaves us with the melancholic power and unbearable weight of History." This book is an account of the popular culture and middle class of Nanjing prior to the Japanese invasion. But I would hardly call it a love story; it is a besotted man's lone annoying obsession with a stranger.… (mehr)
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