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| | Amazon.fr : Spring Bamboo: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories: Livres en anglais: Jeanne Tai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Subtitled A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories, these 10 literary tales are devoid of the polemic and ideology that readers might expect. |
 | | Instead, the young writers, nearly all under 40 years of age according to the introduction by Leo Ou-fan Lee, are part of a new literary movement called the xungen or "searching for roots" school, in which ancient myths and folklore are mined for modern relevance. |
 | | Mixing allegory and legend, "The Tree Stump" tells of a village, famous for its ballad singers, where singing ceased; when sanctioned again, it was discovered that the younger generation didn't know how to sing. |
| www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0394565827 (363 words) |
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