Reading the Modern Chinese Short Story

by Theodore Huters

Translations of six stories accompany seven papers from a workshop on critical approaches to modern Chinese short stories held at the U. of Hawaii in December 1982. With one exception, the essays analyze the stories presented, looking at such factors as the psychological structure, the narrator, ide

222 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Prof. Theodore Huters joined RCT as the Chief Editor of Renditions in July 2010. He is professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has taught at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures since 1994. He has written extensively on twentieth-century Chinese literature and intellectual history, on Qian Zhongshu, Lu Xun, Qing dynasty prose and the intellectual developments in the late Qing dynasty. He is currently researching the cultural transformation of Shanghai in the years between 1860 and 1920 and working on translating the writings of Wang Hui and Wang Xiaoming.