Wintry Night / / Qiao Li.
An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through Wo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE. Wintry Night
- 1.The Peng Family Make Their Way to Fanzai Wood
- 2. Days on Guard
- 3. Planting Potatoes, Making Potash, Death
- 4.The Unexpected
- 5. Love
- 6. Death and Disaster
- 7. Change
- 8.The Japanese Arrive
- 9. Endless Wintry Night
- PART TWO. The Lone Lamp
- 1.The Sound of Weeping
- 2. Good-bye
- 3.Ten Thousand Miles of Sea and Sky
- 4.The Clouds and the Moon
- 5. Misfortune
- 6. Good-byes on the Grass
- 7. Misty Spring Days
- 8. Sacrificial Rites
- 9.Women of the Mountains
- 10.The Journey of the Salmon
- 11.The Eternal Lamp