Feng Jicai

Gebundenes Buch

Faces in the Crowd

36 Extraordinary Tales of Tianjin

Übersetzer: Milburn, Olivia

Beschreibung

In a series of beautifully illustrated short stories, author and artist Feng Jicai introduces some weird and wonderful characters from the port city of Tianjin in northeast China where he was born and raised. They include a miracle doctor, a master chicken-thief, an ill-mannered mynah bird, a smooth-talking restaurateur and an educated gangster.

Autor

Born in Tianjin in 1942, Feng Jicai is a contemporary author, artist and cultural scholar who rose to prominence as a pioneer of China's Scar Literature movement that emerged after the Cultural Revolution. He has published almost a hundred literary works in China and more than forty internationally. He is proficient in both Chinese and western artistic techniques, and his artwork has been exhibited in China, Japan, the US, Singapore and Austria. He has had a major influence on contemporary Chinese society with his work on the Project to Save Chinese Folk Cultural Heritages and his roles as honorary member of the Literature and Arts Association, honorary president of the China Folk Literature and Art Association and adviser to the State Council, among others. He is also dean, professor and PhD supervisor at the Feng Jicai Institute of Literature and Art, Tianjin University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACA Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781838905019
• ISBN-10: 1838905014
• Artikelnr.: 58108737