Selected Works of Yang Jiang: Novels · Plays

Author: Yang Jiang
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Yang Jiang's life can be said to have dedicated a significant portion to her husband, Qian Zhongshu. However, Qian Zhongshu's fame did not overshadow her achievements. Works such as Bathing, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Six Records from the Dried School emerged quietly one after another. Though lacking earth-shattering masterpieces, they are like thistles raging open on the plains, striving for their survival with struggling green. Selected Works of Yang Jiang (Fiction and Drama) collects five of the author's short stories and two comedies. The short stories Lulu, Don't Worry! and Early Spring were written in the 1930s and 1940s, while the three others, such as "The Great Joke" and "The Beauty," were composed in the late 1970s. All the short stories are set in the daily lives of young students and intellectuals, reading smoothly and humorously. The comedies As You Wish and The Truth of a Lie were written and performed during the war-torn Shanghai under occupation, directed and acted by renowned artists, and garnered enthusiastic responses, marking Yang Jiang's breakthrough works.