World of a Tiny Insect

Autor: Zhang Daye, Xiaofei Tian

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: UNIV OF WASHINGTON PR

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"From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world..." So begins Zhang Daye's pr...

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Autor

Zhang Daye, Xiaofei Tian

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2014

strony

208

EAN

9780295993171

ISBN

0295993170

Enbook ID

02514515

Wydawca

UNIV OF WASHINGTON PR

Waga

408

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 18

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"From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world..." So begins Zhang Daye's preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China's devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was seven years old. The Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid from Taiping soldiers, local bandits, and imperial troops and witnessed gruesome scenes of violence and death. He lost friends and family and nearly died himself from starvation, illness, and encounters with soldiers on rampages. Written thirty years later, The World of a Tiny Insect gives voice to this history. A rare premodern Chinese literary work depicting a child's perspective, Zhang's sophisticated text captures the macabre images, paranoia, and emotional excess that defined his wartime experience and echoed throughout his adult life. The structure, content, and imagery of The World of a Tiny Insect reveals a carefully crafted, fragmented narrative that skips in time and probes the relationships between trauma and memory, revealing both history and its psychic impact. Xiaofei Tian's annotated translation includes an introduction that situates The World of a Tiny Insect in Chinese history and literature and explores the relevance of the book to the workings of traumatic memory. Zhang Daye (b. 1854) is known only as the author of The World of a Tiny Insect. Xiaofei Tian is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. Among her recent publications is Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China.

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