A History of Taiwan Literature Contributor(s): Ye, Shitao (Author), Lupke, Christopher (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1621964779 ISBN-13: 9781621964773 Publisher: Cambria Press OUR PRICE: $118.74 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Chinese - History | Asia - General - Literary Collections | Asian - Chinese |
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.68 lbs) 404 pages |
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Publisher Description: A History of Taiwan Literature by Ye Shitao, an important public intellectual in Taiwan, was published in the crucial watershed year of 1987 when the end of martial law on the island was signaled. Ye's work was clearly a product of that period and would have been less timid, considering the fact that the rule book on public expression had yet to be written, if it had been written later. The book is a rigorous, comprehensive treatment; it goes to great lengths to devote attention to all major writers in the history of Taiwan as well as many who were not as prominent. Ye has been fair and evenhanded in the writing of his literary history of Taiwan; there is little, if any, tendentiousness in the book. This is arguably one of the most important intellectual works of literary history, made even more impressive by Ye's inclusion of copious notes, including Japanese-language ones. |