Written on Water (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
Contributors: Nicole Huang (Introduction); Andrew F. Jones (Translator)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780231131384
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Asian - Chinese; Women Authors; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Translations into English; Zhang, Ailing
First sentence: IT USED TO BE that when people celebrated Chinese New Year, they would paste red strips of paper on the wall with maxims like "Things are Looking Up" and "From the Mouths of Babes" written across them.