Hsien-Yung Pai
Forfatter af Crystal Boys: A Novel
Om forfatteren
Son of one of the military leaders of the Nationalist Revolution and high government defense official during the war against Japan, Pai spent much of his youth in wartime Kweilin in southwest China, which has provided much of the material for his subsequent fiction. After the war ended, he resided vis mere for a time in Shanghai, and then resettled with his parents in Taiwan when he was of middle-school age. He attended the prestigious National Taiwan University. He published his first short story in September 1958, having just completed his freshman year. Pai came to the United States in 1963 and since 1965 has taught Chinese at the University of California at Santa Barbara while continuing to publish fiction. His style is among the most polished of any modern writer in Chinese. He depicts his characters with vivid realism, and often chooses themes that describe the pain of exile, showing the once powerful reduced to humble or humiliating circumstances. Such themes are particularly evident in his highly acclaimed collection of stories, Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream: Tales of Taipei Characters (1971) which he dedicates to his parents and "the tumultuous age in which they lived." With his novel Crystal Boys (1990), he has become the first modern Chinese writer to explore the theme of homosexuality in a story about gay life in the city of Taipei. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Hsien-Yung Pai
Ji mo de shi qi sui (The Lonely Seventeen, in traditional Chinese, NOT in English) (2000) 5 eksemplarer
台北人 1 eksemplar
遊園驚夢二十年 1 eksemplar
Garcons de cristal 1 eksemplar
Selected novels: Xiaoshuo xuanji 1 eksemplar
Min xing ka fei guan 明星咖啡舘白先勇論文雜文集 1 eksemplar
Jin da ban de zhui hou yi ye 金大班的最後一夜 1 eksemplar
Ye qu 1 eksemplar
紐約客 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragyder — 175 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- 白先勇
- Andre navne
- Kenneth Pai
- Fødselsdato
- 1937-07-11
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Taiwan
- Bopæl
- Hong Kong
Taiwan - Uddannelse
- La Salle College, Hong Kong
National Taiwan University (English Literature | 1958) - Erhverv
- professor (retired)
- Relationer
- 白崇禧 (father)
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Einsam mit siebzehn : Erzählungen von Menschen in… af Bai Xianyong
Erzählung: Wandering through a garden, waking from a dream": https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2054&context=honr_t...
Taipei People is a collection of 14 short stories by the Taiwanese writer Bai Xien Yong. Published separately during the 60s, and for the first time as a collection in 1971, the work is rightly regarded on both sides of the Taiwan Strait as a masterpiece of Chinese literature, a contemporary classic. The stories focus on those who fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai Shek’s armies in 1949: the singsong girls, taxi dancers, prostitutes, Beijing Opera stars, cooks, batmen, industrialists, widows, airmen and soldiers, generals, scholars and minor government functionaries, all of whom are living out their last days in Taipei, victims of history, survivors of loss, nursing their reveries of bygone days, putting a brave face on grief, and coming to terms with exile and defeat.
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