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Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic

By (author) Xu Xu, Translated with commentary by Frederik H. Green

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Introducing the works of a major Chinese writerâ€”liberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exoticâ€”once banned but now embraced, and newly ""discovered"" in the West. Xu Xu å¾è¨ (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer todayâ€™s readers an unusual glimpse into Chinaâ€™s turbulent twentieth century. These translations--spanning a period of some thirty years, from 1937 until 1965--bring to life some of Xu Xuâ€™s most representative short fictions from prewar Shanghai and postwar Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Afterword illustrates that Xu Xuâ€™s idealistic tendencies in defiance of the politicization of art exemplify his affinity with European romanticism and link his work to a global literary modernity.

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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).

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