Short Stories In Chinese Av John Balcom

<b>A dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first time</b><br> <br> This new volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature from the world’s most spoken language, without having to constantly to refer back to a dictionary. <br> <br> The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well-known writers as well as emerging voices. From a story by Li Rui about the honest simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to one by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society, they are infused with both rural dialect and urban slang and feature a wide range of styles and points of view.<br> <br> Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language.