White Kuan-yu's Collected Works, Volume 2: Taipei People: White Kuan-yu's Collected Works (Volume 2)

Author: Ba Xianyong
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Publish Date: 2000-04-01
Features: The People of Taipei is almost considered a classic in the field of modern Taiwanese literature and even the entire overseas Chinese literary circle. In the list of the top 100 Chinese novels of the 20th century selected by Asia Weekly, it ranks seventh after works such as Lu Xun's , Shen Congwen's Border Town, and Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged. There are many works that may achieve widespread fame for various reasons, but few are recognized as having a universal nurturing and inspirational significance for the next generation of writers and are cherished in memory for a long time. The People of Taipei has clearly become one of them. The People of Taipei marks the maturity and peak of Ba Xianyong's literary career. The fourteen short stories include the author's finest works such as A Dream of Red Mansions and Eternal Yin Xian, which depict the struggles of rootless Chinese people caught between the past and the present, history and reality, tradition and modernity. These fourteen short stories thus form an organic whole, brimming with the vicissitudes of history and life, filled with sober and helpless sighs. This profound sense of history, combined with the author's refined literary techniques and elegant, flowing writing style, creates the timeless charm of The People of Taipei.