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Cheng Ch'ing-wen Three-Legged Horse (Hardback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Three-Legged Horse
- Publication Name
- Three-Legged Horse
- Title
- Three-Legged Horse
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0231113862
- EAN
- 9780231113861
- ISBN
- 9780231113861
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Fiction
- Release Year
- 1998
- Release Date
- 10/11/1998
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.7in
- Series
- Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Topic
- Asian / General, Short Stories (Single Author), General
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realization. Together, they weave a complex tapestry of life in a rapidly changing country. Cheng Ch'ing-wen's stories tell of men grappling with their fears and frustrations, from "The River Suite," in which a ferryman-championed throughout his small town for twice saving a drowning person-lacks the courage to confess his love to a young woman before she dies, to "Spring Rain," in which a man struggles to come to terms with his seemingly rootless life as both an orphaned child and an infertile husband. Here too are illustrations of the changing place of women in Taiwan, as they take on more powerful roles and awaken to a sense of their own sexuality: a woman forcibly separated from her husband by her jealous mother-in-law walks for hours through the night to see him on his birthday, only to turn back and go straight home before her absence is noticed; a disappointed young female scholar with a deformed hand comes to realize--after many painful rejections--that loneliness is not reason enough to become intimate with a man. And generations clash in "Thunder God's Gonna Getcha," as a mother's cruelty is repaid years later by a son's coldness. Death reverberates throughout these stories as characters recall deceased spouses, lovers, relatives, and friends in vivid detail. The focus, however, is not on the dead but on the living. In the title story, an old man carves exquisite lame horses as both a penance for having terrorized a town as a police officer during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II and a memorial to his deceased wife, who was nobler and more courageous than he. This book is a kind of gallery of three-legged horses: portraits of people maimed and transformed-for better or worse-by the suffering that life brings.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231113862
ISBN-13
9780231113861
eBay Product ID (ePID)
328270
Product Key Features
Book Title
Three-Legged Horse
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Asian / General, Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.7in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl2841.C53a27 1999
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Hearts and souls are lost and found in each of these moving tales. Three-Legged Horse is a rare jewel, the first English translations from Cheng's 40-year writing career. We can only wait in eager anticipation for his next collection." -- Gail Tsukiyama, Pacific Rim Voices Book Review, Cheng writes in a simple, clear, and disciplined manner, with no pretensions.... The stories... have universal appeal., Title: New photo book depicts history of Staten Island's St. George section Author: Tevah Platt Publisher: Staten Island Advance Date: 4/9/09 Back in 1818, a 12.5 cent ride on the Staten Island ferry would take you from the bustling, foul-smelling Manhattan port to a quiet landscape soon to be dotted with mansions and retreat houses for the very rich. St. George, a neighborhood known as New Brighton in the 1830s and as Camp Washington during the Civil War, had been a key look-out spot during the American Revolution and would dwindle, grow, and transform to become the eclectic community that residents today call Staten Island's "downtown." In a new book, that story is depicted in photographs that will captivate lovers of history, architecture and the neighborhood at large. "St. George," part of Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series, tells the story of the neighborhood, from the burning of the quarantine hospital to the construction of the Richmond County Bank Ballpark. Local authors David Goldfarb and James G. Ferreri show us centuries-old photographs of sweeping views from the Kill van Kull; the grand old Hotel Castleton; Curtis High School, and horse-drawn carriages on Richmond Terrace. One early photograph shows Spanish-American War veterans parading down Central Avenue. The book is more about places than people, but it does tell the de rigeur story of Erastus Wiman, who agreed to "canonize" George Law in order to broker the real estate deal that gave St. George its name. The authors also trace the history of St. George as a transportation hub, with lovely photographs of its old train yards and a chapter on the development of the Staten Island Ferry. Goldfarb, former head of the St. George Civic Association, is the managing partner of the Manhattan law firm Golfarb Abrandt Salzman & Kutzin, concentrating on health law, elder law trusts and estates, and the rights of the elderly and disabled. A local preservationist, Goldfarb was formerly president of the Historic Districts Council and is now chair of Preserve & Protect, Inc., and on the board of the Preservation League of Staten Island. Ferreri, an award-winning interior designer, is the author of the Advance columns, "Present, Past and Future," and "Designers at Home." Ferreri is the president of the Preservation League of Staten Island and a member of the board of trustees of the Historic Districts Council in Manhattan. Book signings will be held April 17 at 5 at SHOW Gallery, 156 Stuyvesant Pl.; April 25 at 2 p.m. at the St. George Library, 5 Central Ave., and on May 7 at a time to be announced in the Staten Island Museum, 75 Stuyvesant Pl., all in St. George. The book ($21.99) will be available Monday from Arcadia Publishing (www.arcadiapublishing.com) and at local bookstores., Chekhov... would have understood the compassionate sensibility animating these gently harrowing, unpretentious, absorbing tales., The moment you open the book you know why Cheng is considered a master.... These 12 tales are the finest examples of modern Chinese fiction I have come across in English., "The moment you open the book you know why Cheng is considered a master.... These 12 tales are the finest examples of modern Chinese fiction I have come across in English." -- Bradley Winterton, South China Morning Post, "This collection of simple stories, written in simple language yet rich with vivid details, presents a gallery of portraits of disorientation, distortion, and frustration." -- Guanlong Cao, New York Times Book Review, "Cheng writes in a simple, clear, and disciplined manner, with no pretensions.... The stories... have universal appeal." -- Choice, "Chekhov... would have understood the compassionate sensibility animating these gently harrowing, unpretentious, absorbing tales." -- Kirkus Reviews, This collection of simple stories, written in simple language yet rich with vivid details, presents a gallery of portraits of disorientation, distortion, and frustration., Hearts and souls are lost and found in each of these moving tales. Three-Legged Horse is a rare jewel, the first English translations from Cheng's 40-year writing career. We can only wait in eager anticipation for his next collection., "The subtle gestures of the esteemed Cheng's first translated collection summon the ghosts of Taiwan's past. In twelve wistful stories, Cheng sketches characters who must reconcile their literal or cultural memories of Taiwan's politically unstable history with the routines of their modern lives.... Cheng's eye is sharp and keenly trained on the details of a changing society." -- Publishers Weekly, The subtle gestures of the esteemed Cheng's first translated collection summon the ghosts of Taiwan's past. In twelve wistful stories, Cheng sketches characters who must reconcile their literal or cultural memories of Taiwan's politically unstable history with the routines of their modern lives.... Cheng's eye is sharp and keenly trained on the details of a changing society.
Table of Content
1. The River Suite, by translated by Lien-ren Hsiao 2. The Mosquito, by translated by Anne Behnke 3. Betel Nut Town, by translated by James R. Landers 4. A Fisherman's Family, by translated by Jane Parish Yang 5. The Last of the Gentlemen, by translated by Chen I-djen 6. Secrets, by translated by Jeffrey Toy Eng 7. God of Thunder's Gonna Getcha, by translated by Nicholas Koss 8. Autumn Night, by translated by Michele Wu 9. Spring Rain, by translated by Karen Steffen Chung 10. The Three-Legged Horse, by translated by Carlos G. Tee 11. Hair, by translated by Karen Steffen Chung 12. The Coconut Palms on Campus, by translated by Fred Steiner
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
98-022603
Dewey Decimal
895.1352
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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