# History of Modern Chinese Fiction

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- Authors: [Hsia Chih-tsing](https://www.bookquiver.com/hsia-chih-tsing)
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- ISBN: 978-02-5321-311-2
- Pages: 776
- Published: 1999-10-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.