Stories for Saturday
Subtitle: twentieth-century Chinese popular fiction
By: Translated by Timothy C. Wong
Contributors: Wong, Timothy C
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Other titles: Twentieth-century Chinese popular fiction
Description: In the first half of the 20th century, many Chinese lost themselves in tales of scandal, romance and martial gallantry - standard reading for city dwellers craving escape. The stories selected and translated here are a record of what urban life was like, as well as what readers wished it to be.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-247)