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Wintry Night (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan) by Li, Qiao; Liu, Taotao; Balcom, John is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Wintry Night (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan) about?
<p>An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers—and the colonization of Taiwan itself—exploring their relationships with the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan and their strugg
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Li, Qiao; Liu, Taotao; Balcom, John
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231122009
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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