The Chess Master: (Chinese-English Bilingual Edition)

By Ah Cheng

The Chess Master is a story of escape and salvation, and the clue for both is chess. The protagonist, Wang Yisheng, undergoes a gradual transformation from "chess fool" to "chess master" -- from an alienated young man obsessed with the material needs of life to a spiritually enlightened transmitter of the Chinese tradition. By reversing the pervasive anti-traditional trend in modern Chinese literature and eschewing any overt influence from Western literature, Ah Cheng has created in the The Chess Master a radically new fiction that is both thoroughly modern and deeply imbued with the Chinese tradition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9629962373
• ISBN13: 9789629962371
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher