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| #252592 in Books | New Directions | 2004-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.20 x6.10l,1.12 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Miscommunication and the Logic of Chance|By Giant Panda|This breathtaking novel about China in the 1930s during the Japanese occupation is characterized by miscommunication. At least in love, everyone in this novel misunderstands others, leading to serious failure in relationships. Another characteristic is how trivial things - the products of chance - end up having immense c||An insightful and entertaining work...gains resonance from its large and momentous backdrop of China in transition. (The New York of Books, Pankaj Mishra)|About the Author|Qian Zhongshu (Ch'ien Chung-shu, 1910-199
The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era.
Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in...
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