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Often described as a book about language, Embassytown also employs fictional language, or neologisms, as a means of building its world. [1] [2] The author Ursula K. Le Guin describes this as follows: "When everything in a story is imaginary and much is unfamiliar, there's far too much to explain and describe, so one of the virtuosities of SF is the invention of box-words that the reader must ...
Cat Country (simplified Chinese: 猫 城 记; traditional Chinese: 貓 城 記; pinyin: Māochéngjì, also translated as City of Cats [1]) is a dystopian satirical novel by Chinese writer Lao She (1899–1966), first published in 1933. It has been translated into English, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese and Russian.
The Scholars is a satirical novel that describes the life activities of various Chinese Confucian scholars, prudently set mostly in the early 16th century during the Ming dynasty that preceded the Qing.
Strange Beasts of China (Chinese: 异兽志; pinyin: Yì shòu zhì) is a science fiction novel written by Chinese author Yan Ge.It was originally published in 2006. The English translation, translated by Jeremy Tiang, was published in 2021 by Tilted Axis Press.
Feng said that Qin "is ensconced, somewhat ironically, in extensive and complex familial relationships" so that the book rarely mentions her life away from the Gao family. [5] Feng explained that because Ba Jin made the female student Qin as a more "feminine" and "inferior" counterpart to the male student Juehui, the "domestication" of Qin is ...
[1] The first book edition of the novella, published in Taiwan, [5] had the name Wives and Concubines. [6] This publication happened in 1990, and it was a volume that also included the novella Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes. [7] However, the name used in the second edition in Taiwan and in the Hong Kong edition became Raise the Red Lantern. [6]
Brothers (Chinese: 兄弟; pinyin: Xiōngdì) is the longest novel written by the Chinese novelist Yu Hua, in total of 76 chapters, separately published in 2005 for the part 1 (of the first 26 chapters) and in 2006 for part 2 (of the rest 50 chapters) by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. [1]
1 "Jiang Xingge Reencounters His Pearl Shirt" Birch 1958: [3] "The Pearl-sewn Shirt" Kelly 1978: "The Pearl Shirt Reencountered" [4] 蔣興哥重會珍珠衫: 2 "Censor Chen Ingeniously Solves the Case of the Gold Hairpins and Brooches" Chu 1929: "The Clever Judgment of Censor Chen Lien" [5] Yao 1975: "The Case of the Gold Hairpins" [6]