Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu
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Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu

Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic

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eBook - ePub

Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu

Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic

About this book

Introducing the works of a major Chinese writer—liberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exotic—once banned but now embraced, and newly "discovered" in the West.

Xu Xu ?? (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today's readers an unusual glimpse into China's turbulent twentieth century.

These translations--spanning a period of some thirty years, from 1937 until 1965--bring to life some of Xu Xu's most representative short fictions from prewar Shanghai and postwar Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The Afterword illustrates that Xu Xu's idealistic tendencies in defiance of the politicization of art exemplify his affinity with European romanticism and link his work to a global literary modernity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Xu Xu’s Literary Journey through Twentieth-Century China
  7. Note on the Translation
  8. 鬼戀: Ghost Love
  9. 猶太的彗星: The Jewish Comet
  10. 鳥語: Bird Talk
  11. 百靈樹: The All-Souls Tree
  12. 來高升路的一個女人: When Ah Heung Came to Gousing Road
  13. Afterword: A Chinese Romantic’s Journey through Time and Space: Xu Xu and Transnational Chinese Romanticism
  14. References
  15. Back Cover