White Collection 2 (Taipei People)

Author: Ba Xianyong
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Publish Date: 2000-04-01
Features: There are many works in the world that may become famous for various reasons at one time, but those that are universally recognized for their profound influence on the next generation of writers and are devoutly remembered for a long time are very few. The People of Taipei has clearly become one of them. The People of Taipei marks the maturity and peak of Ba Xianyong's novel writing. The fourteen short stories include the author's outstanding representative works such as A Dream of Red Mansions in a Garden and Eternal Yin Xian, which concentrate on describing the struggles of rootless Chinese people caught between the present and the past, history and reality, tradition and modernity. The fourteen short stories thus form an organic whole, filled with the vicissitudes of history and life, and brimming with and. This profound sense of history, combined with the author's round novel techniques and elegant, flowing writing style, creates the eternal charm of The People of Taipei.