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The Last of the Whampoa Breed: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan) by Chi, Pang-yuan (editor);Wang, David Der-Wei (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Stories born of the trials and heartache of exile in Taiwan. Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. For decades the "Spirit of Whampoa" was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically. But of all the battles these soldiers have fought, the most challenging one was the civil war that resulted in the "great divide" of China in the mid-twentieth century. In 1949 the Communists exiled a million soldiers and their families to compounds in Taiwan and cut off communication with mainland China for forty years. __The Last of the Whampoa Breed__ tells the stories of the exiles written by their descendants, many of whom have become Taiwan's most important authors. The book is an important addition to the vastly underrepresented literature of Taiwan in translation and sheds light on the complex relationship between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. Western readers will not at first recognize the experiences of these soldiers who were severed from a traditional past only to face unfulfilled promises and uncertain futures. Many of the exiles were doomed to live and die homeless and loveless. Yet these life st

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Author

Chi, Pang-yuan (editor);Wang, David Der-Wei (editor)

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231509053

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Fiction