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  "description": "\" The great virtue of this book is that it provides a practicalacquaintance with the writing itself by means of copious passages of translationfrom representative novels.\" -- New York Times BookReview\" C. T. Hsia's book is by now an acknowledged classic. It truly opened up a new field and prepared the way for generations of Americanscholars to do research. We are all in his debt.\" -- LeoLeeThis pioneering, classic study of 20th-century Chinese fictioncovers some sixty years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through the CulturalRevolution of 1966-76.",
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