The Monster That Is History
Subtitle: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780520231405
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; History and criticism; Asian - General; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Chinese; History: World; China; Asian - Chinese; History / General; Asia - General; 20th century; Chinese fiction; Taiwan; Violence in literature
First sentence: Linnuyu, or Women's Words Overheard (1902-1904), by Youhuan Yusheng (Survivor of calamities, pseudonym of Lian Mengqing, 18??-after 1914), is one of the first late Qing narratives about the atrocities of the Boxer Rebellion.