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Three-Legged Horse
by Cheng Ch'Ingwen ; Pang-Yuan Chi ; Carlos G. Tee ; Yuan Chi Pang
ISBN: 0231113862
ISBN-13: 9780231113861
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Twelve stories, set in Taiwan, by a popular Chinese writer.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published date: 1998
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.95 pounds
Pages: 225
Publisher's Notes
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 aman. 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.
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Three-Legged Horse
Ch'ing-Wen, Cheng
Columbia University Press. Hardcover. 0231113862 A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. 1999 Columbia University Press Hard Cover . Very Good. 1999. ( more information)
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Three-Legged Horse
Cheng Ch'ing-Wen
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Cheng Ch'ing-Wen
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Three-Legged Horse (Qty: 5)
Ch'ing-Wen Cheng
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Three-Legged Horse
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Three-Legged Horse
Ch'ing-wen, Cheng
New York, New York, USA: Columbia University Press, 1999. BH1 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good- condition. A sequence of numbers appears on the copyright page with the "1" present and no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in red paper covered boards quarter bound in red cloth with metallic blue lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front free endpaper, and title page. The dust dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus the front and back endflaps are glued to the fixed endpapers plus there is a library label on the back plus it is still in the origiinal library mylar sleeve. This is a title in the publisher's Modern Literature from Taiwan series. Edited by Pang-yuan Chi. A collection of twelve short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers. They focus primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years. 226p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. ( more information)
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Three-Legged Horse
Cheng Ch'ing-Wen
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Three-Legged Horse
Ch'Ingwen, Cheng
Irvington, New York, U.S.A.: Columbia Univ Pr, 2000 A collection of short stories by "nativist" writer Cheng Ch'ing-wen that encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity.. Trade Paperback. New/New. ( more information)
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Three-Legged Horse
Cheng Ch'ing-Wen
New York: Columbia University Press, 1999 Twelve short stories from one of the most popular and respected authors writing in Taiwan. This is his first book to be translated into English.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ( more information)
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Ch'ing-Wen, Cheng
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Three-Legged Horse
Cheng Ch'ing-Wen
Columbia University Press, 1999-01-15. Hardcover. Very Good. COLLECTIBLE! 1st Edition 1999 Columbia University Press (NY) HARDBACK; text clean/UNMARKED; color cover surface near mint/very mild edge wear w/no tears or nicks; unclipped; spine strong; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; Not book club; 226 pages + 18 preliminary pgs; edited w/foreword by Pang-yuan Chi; text is 12 stories (River Suite; Mosquito; Berel Nut Town; Fisherman's Family; Last of the Gentlemen; Secrets; God of Thunder's Gonna Getcha; Autumn Night; Spring Rain; Three-Legged Horse; Hair; Coconut Palms on Campus); brief author biography w/small photograph; wrap-around color jacket design by Linda Secondari; "Cheng is 1 of most respected of Taiwan's 'nativist' writers...this is his 1st book to be translated into English...this anthology represents best of his fictional efforts across 40-year span + encompasses his major themes: tensions between men + women, parents + children, city + village, tradition + modernity"; part of Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan series; gift quality collectible copy of 8-year-old hardback. ( more information)
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Three Legged Horse
Cheng Ch'ing-Wen
NY: Columbia University Press, 1999. Second printing. Fine in a near fine dustjacket with minute edgewear. Not priceclipped and no markings. Twelve short stories set in Taiwan.. Hard Cover. ( more information)
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Cheng Ch'ing-Wen
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Ch'ing-Wen, Cheng
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