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Fortress Besieged

Fortress Besieged( )
Author: Zhongshu, Qian
Translator: Kelly, Jeanne
Mao, Nathan K.
Foreword by: Spence, Jonathan D.
Series title:New Directions Classic Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8112-2354-6
Publication Date:Feb 2004
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $21.95
Book Description:

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.

Book Details
Pages:416
Author Biography
Zhongshu, Qian (Author)
Jonathan D. Spence was born in Surrey, England on August 11, 1936. He received a B.A. in history from Clare College, Cambridge University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. As a historian specializing in Chinese history, he wrote several books including The Search for Modern China, The Death of Woman Wang, and The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. The Gate of Heavenly Peace won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Henry D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters.

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