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Qian Zhongshu - Fortress Besieged, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Fortress Besieged

Av Qian Zhongshu

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Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights.
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The fiction writer, essayist, editor, and poet Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998) was one of China’s foremost “scholar-novelists.” With a mastery of Chinese, English, Greek, Latin, German, French, Spanish, and Italian, Qian is seen by many as the last link in an unbroken chain of geniuses stretching back to Confucius. In 1935, he passed his examinations with the highest score in history. He wrote landmark texts on classical Chinese literature as well as short stories, poems, essays, and a second unfinished novel, Heart of the Artichoke, which was lost in the wartime mail. Jeanne Kelly received her B.A. in Russian at Indiana University and her M.A. in Chinese from the University of Wisconsin. Nathan K. Mao was a Professor of English at Shippensburg University and the translator of Ba Jin’s Cold Nights and Li Yu’s Twelve Towers. Jonathan D. Spence (1936—2021) was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught for more than forty years. He was awarded MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The Search for Modern China won the Lionel Gelber Award and the Kiriyama Book Prize.

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