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Pai Hsien-yung is a prolific writer and has published more than ten novels and collections of short stories. He now lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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This is a fine collection of Modern Chinese short stories about a highly specific group of people residing in Taipei roughly from 1949 to the 1980s. Some of these famous tales have been retold and filmed onto the silver screen. Though it is titled "Taipei People," the stories details lives of the upper class Chinese that fled the Mainland Chinese Communists in 1949. Thus the readers get a cut of the rich and powerful (generals and their families) but the full scope of Taipei citizens (ie. Taiwanese peasants) is not represented.
I was pleasantly surprised that many of the stories were told from the point of view of women with voices ranging from upper class wives to prostitutes. If you're purchasing the English version, be forewarned, the translator does take liberties with the translation. Some of the meaning is sacrificed for smoothness and flow in the English language.
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Madame Ch'ien, Wang Hsiung, Yin Hsueh-yen, Lai Ming-sheng, Nanny Shun-en, Madame Tou, Kuo Chen, Ch'in I-fang, Madame Hua, General P'u, Colonel Ch'eng, Snow Beauty, Chiang Pi-yueh, Commissioner Lei, Baby Five, Brother Lai, Major Liu, Miss Lin, Madame Lai, Air Force, Fifth Sister, Young Master, Little Sweetie, General Ch'ien, General Li New!
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Yin Hsueh-yen somehow never seemed to age. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madame Ch'ien, Wang Hsiung, Yin Hsueh-yen, Lai Ming-sheng, Nanny Shun-en, Madame Tou, Kuo Chen, Ch'in I-fang, Madame Hua, General P'u, Colonel Ch'eng, Snow Beauty, Chiang Pi-yueh, Commissioner Lei, Baby Five, Brother Lai, Major Liu, Miss Lin, Madame Lai, Air Force, Fifth Sister, Young Master, Little Sweetie, General Ch'ien, General Li New!
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- The Peony Pavilion by Xianzu Tang in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Don Juan (Penguin Classics) by Lord George Gordon Byron on page 410
- The Tiger Killers: Part Two of The Marshes of Mount Liang by Luo Guan-zhong in Front Matter
- The Peony Pavilion (Library of Chinese Classics: Chinese-English edition: 2 Volumes) by Tang Xianzu in Front Matter
- Wild Grass (Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature) by Lu Xun in Front Matter
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- China's Republic (New Approaches to Asian History) by Diana Lary on page 198, and page 210
- Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism: National Identity and Status in International Society (Politics in Asia) by Christopher Hughes in Back Matter
- Snow in August by Gao Xingjian in Front Matter
- From a Cottager's Sketchbook I: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition (Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature) (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition) by Liang Shih-chiu in Back Matter
- Ibsen and Ibsenism in China 1908-1997: A Critical-Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, Translation and Performance by Kwok-kan Tam in Front Matter
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