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UNINA9910787230603321 |
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Autore |
Döblin Alfred <1878-1957, > |
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Titolo |
The three leaps of Wang Lun : a Chinese novel / / By Alfred Döblin ; translated by C. D. Godwin |
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Sha Tin, Hong Kong ; ; New York, New York : , : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press : , : New York Review Books, , 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxi, 490 pages :) : map ; |
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Classificazione |
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FIC014000FIC032000FIC019000 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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FICTION / Historical |
FICTION / War & Military |
FICTION / Literary |
China History Qianlong, 1736-1795 Fiction |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Dedication -- Prologue: The Attack on Chao Lao-hsü -- Book One: Wang Lun -- Book Two: The Broken Melon -- Book Three: Lord of the Yellow Earth -- Book Four: The Western Paradise -- Appendix: The Insurrection of Wang Lun, in 1774. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"China 1760-1774 Novel translated from the German"-- |
"In 1915, fourteen years before Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Doblin published his first novel, an amazing, extensively researched Chinese historical extravaganza: The Three Leaps of Wang Lun. Even more remarkably, given its subject matter, the book was written in expressionist style and is now considered the first modern German novel, as well as the first Western novel to depict a China untouched by the West. Based on actual accounts of a doomed rebellion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the late eighteenth century, the novel tells the story of Wang Lun, a historical martial arts master and charismatic leader of the White Lotus sect, who leads a futile revolt of the "Truly Powerless." Densely packed cities and Tibetan wastes, political intrigue and religious yearning, imperial court life and the fate of wandering outcasts are depicted in a language of enormous vigor and matchless |
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imagination, unfolding the theme of timidity against force and a mystical sense of the world against the realities of power"-- |
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