A Garden of One's Own: Modern Chinese Essays: 1919-1949

Fifty essays by thirty Chinese writers bring to vivid life a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. Unlike the more thematically social and political fiction of the May Fourth movement, these xiaopin wen , or modern essays, address their readers with a unique intimacy, adopting a highly "personal" voice that is quietly meditative, lyrical, discreet, and full of wit and melancholy. Tam King-fai supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement, and with and commentary he explicates the form's lyric aestheticism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9629964236
• ISBN13: 9789629964238
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher