Volume 27, Number 6 · April 17, 1980
Forever Jade
By Jonathan D. Spence
Fortress Besieged
by Ch'ien Chung-shu, translated by Jeanne Kelly, by Nathan K. Mao
Indiana University Press, 377 pp., $17.50
The Field of Life and Death and Tales of Hulan River
by Hsiao Hung, translated by Howard Goldblatt, by Ellen Yeung
Indiana University Press, 291 pp., $14.95
Literature of the People's Republic of China
edited by Kai-yu Hsü
Indiana University Press, 947 pp., $37.50
The Dragon's Village
by Chen Yuan-tsung
Pantheon, 285 pp., $10.00
Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960-1970
edited by Joseph S.M. Lau, edited by Timothy A. Ross
Columbia University Press, 354 pp., $7.50 (paper)
A central crisis in modern Chinese letters has been caused by the need to take account of Western forms. Some writers adjusted eagerly to Western literature out of a sincere admiration for Western culture; some grudgingly, out of a total rejection of China's own 'feudal' past; some out of a deeply ambiguous attitude, in which admiration for the West blended with the desire to preserve what was culturally valuable and historically charged in the Chinese tradition.
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