Analysis of Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged
2022年10月11日 · Fortress Besieged distinguishes itself from other contemporary Chinese works in a number of ways. For example, where Ding Ling’s The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River (1948) concentrates on the land reform movement among farming communities, this novel focuses on the pseudo-intellectual community in China at the end of the 1930s.
A Monument to What Might Have Been: Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"
2013年10月13日 · Fortress Besieged will have to stand on its own merits, a monument to what might have been. Brendan O'Kane is a host at Popup Chinese, a translator at Paper Republic, a contributing editor to ...
Fortress Besieged | novel by Qian Zhongshu | Britannica
Other articles where Fortress Besieged is discussed: Qian Zhongshu: …short stories; and Weicheng (1947; Fortress Besieged), a novel. Although it was widely translated, Qian’s novel did not receive much recognition in China until the late 1970s. It became a best-seller in China in the 1980s and was made into a television drama series in 1991.
Fortress Besieged Paperback – Illustrated, February 1, 2004
2004年2月1日 · 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 …
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- 作者: Qian Zhongshu, Jeanne Kelly, Nathan K. Mao
Fortress Besieged - Historical Novel Society
Fortress Besieged. Written by Jeanne Kelly (trans.) Nathan K. Mao (trans.) Qian Zhongshu Review by Wendy Zollo. Fortress Besieged was initially published in China in 1947 and is debatably considered one of the finest Chinese novels of last century and for good reason; it is that rare book that borders on the literary yet defines its goals without losing its readability.
Book Summary: Fortress Besieged (围城) by Qian Zhongshu
2022年7月14日 · Fortress Besieged is a complex novel with many different themes. First is love – it is most well known for the quote “marriage is like a fortress besieged: those who are outside want to get in and those who are inside want to get out”. The marriage between Fang and Sun is a disastrous one where both are miserable.
Fortress Besieged - Penguin Books UK
Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien, who after aimlessly studying in Europe at his family's expense returns to Shanghai armed with a bogus degree from a fake university. On the liner back, Fang's life becomes deeply entangled with those of two Chinese beauties - …
Fortress Besieged - 豆瓣读书
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 (à la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus ...
(PDF) Fortress Besieged: Cynicism and Qian Zhongshu's Narrative …
Fortress Besieged subtly ridicules this tendency by stating that “China is the greatest promoter of science of any country in the world; no other governmental body is so willing to offer high posts to scientists. As Western science moves forward, Chinese scientists move upward” (208–209). The problem with modernity, however, is that when ...
Fortress Besieged (Penguin Modern Classics) - amazon.com
2006年4月27日 · Try again. Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien, who after aimlessly studying in Europe at his family''s expense returns to Shanghai armed with a bogus degree from a fake university. On the liner back, Fang''s life becomes deeply entangled with those ...
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- 作者: Qian Zhongshu
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