The Complete Works of Xia Yan

Author: Xia Yan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Xia Yan was an outstanding figure in the Chinese revolutionary cultural movement, a renowned playwright, newspaper critic, reportage writer, essayist, and translator of foreign literature. He was also the founder and pioneer of the People's Film Industry. The completed Collected Works of Xia Yan comprises 16 volumes, approximately 9.2 million words, divided into categories such as drama, film, literature, news commentary, translations, memoirs, and correspondence and diaries. This comprehensive collection and organization of Xia Yan's works have uncovered a significant number of articles never previously included in collections and reprinted out-of-print volumes, clarifying long-standing misconceptions. It is the first post-1949 compilation to publish Xia Yan's correspondence and diaries, as well as translations other than Mother.