The three leaps of Wang Lun : a Chinese novel /
"China 1760-1774 Novel translated from the German."
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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New York : Sha Tin, N.T., Hong Kong :
New York Review Books ; The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press,
2015
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| Series: | Calligrams.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "China 1760-1774 Novel translated from the German." "In 1915, fourteen years before Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Doblin published his first novel, an amazing, extensively researched Chinese historical extravaganza: The Three Leaps of Wang Lun. Even more remarkably, given its subject matter, the book was written in expressionist style and is now considered the first modern German novel, as well as the first Western novel to depict a China untouched by the West. Based on actual accounts of a doomed rebellion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the late eighteenth century, the novel tells the story of Wang Lun, a historical martial arts master and charismatic leader of the White Lotus sect, who leads a futile revolt of the "Truly Powerless." Densely packed cities and Tibetan wastes, political intrigue and religious yearning, imperial court life and the fate of wandering outcasts are depicted in a language of enormous vigor and matchless imagination, unfolding the theme of timidity against force and a mystical sense of the world against the realities of power." -- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 490 pages) : map |
| ISBN: | 9789629969332 9629969335 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Vendor-supplied metadata. Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed February 27, 2020). |
