China's Avant-Garde Fiction

Jing Wang

Original title: China's avant-garde fiction

earliest edition we have, 1998 Duke University Press, 1998 paperback 283 pages

Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing outlandish Tibetan myths, these stories are defined by their devotion to theatrics and their willful apathy toward ev...

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China's Avant-Garde Fiction paperback · 1998 · Duke University Press · 283 pages · 9780822321163
China's Avant-Garde Fiction hardcover · 1998 · Duke University Press · 283 pages · 9780822321002

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