Wintry Night:
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Main Author: Li, Qiao (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press 2010
Series:Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
Online Access:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-473
DE-739
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An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers?and the colonization of Taiwan itself?exploring their relationships with the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan and their struggle to establish their own ethnic and political identities.This carefully researched work of fiction dra
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (573 p)
ISBN:9780231505567

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