Modern literature

Bei Dao. - Waves. Peninsula. 1990.

The action of the novel passes in a small industrial town, during the epoch of the Cultural revolution, where five personages coincide with his dramatic solitude. Across them Bei Dao constructs a big image of the contemporary China.

Chang Jung. - Wild Swans (Three daughters of China). Circe. 1997.

Across the life of the women of 3 generations of a family: grandmother, mother and daughter, who exemplify, in every epoch, the complexity of the country, the authoress shows us a beautiful fresh air of the human history of China during a century full of events.

Chen Rong. - Eight Chinese writers. Icaria. 1990.

In the present volume there are gathered several histories which common characteristic is to have been written by women, and in the decade immediately later to the beginning of the reform and opening on the outside. Different aspects of the contemporary Chinese society remain reflected in them.

Dai Sijie. - Balzac and the Chinese seamstress. Editions Salamander. 2001

A delightful novel ambientada in the dark years of Revolcuión Cultural, in which two young people exiled in a remote mountainous region of the limits of China, discovers the power of the books. The transformation that they suffer on having read the work of Balzac finishes with creating a small stir in the community where they live.

Gao Xinjian. - The mountain of the soul. Bronze. 2001

The "Mountain of the soul" is a magnificent work. It is a finished and complex novel, in which in spite of the apparent absence of action, the situations in which the protagonist turns out to be wrapped relatives happen with a chaining that at once does them to us. Not only it is a big novel, but it is a universal novel.

Gao Xinjian. - The book of an alone man. 2003. 540 pags.

Finish, just before receiving the Nobel Prize, the work centers on the memories of an exiled playwright of China, especially of the collective madness provoked by the communist leaders named Cultural revolution. The testimony first hand, it is creating the history of these terrible years as it is remembered by the protagonist, who tries, expelling it was the whole horror, to avert it once and for all. The proper protagonist, an anti hero whose only virtue is to have survived, shares the weakness and the madness of the world that surrounds him.

Gao Xingjian. - A fishing rod for the grandfather. Bronze. 2003

I will go to the outskirts, to the shore of the river of the outskirts to which the grandfather I take myself to...: to go fishing? I remember that the grandfather took me to the river do not remember with clarity if we catch anything, but I remember that it had a grandfather and an infancy...

Gulik, Robert van. - Three Chinese Stories. Edhasa. 2001

In 1948 the diplomat and sinólogo Dutch Robert van Gulik found a series of ancient texts that they were speaking about mysteries without resolving. Making use of the real existence of the judge Di (630-700) to create one of the more entertaining and exciting series of mystery never written.

There is Jin. - The waiting. Tusquets. 2002

Under the axfisiante control of the communist bureaucracy, which in some aspects it controls up to the most intimate relations of the persons, a military doctor married by political expediency, tries to develop a new feeling that is mixed by his freedom desire.

There is Jin. - In the pond. Tusquets. 2002.

A small revolutionary fable ambientada in the years later to the death of Mao that passes between the miseries and wishes of a few common, almost too common personages. Along the work the ideals make a mistake with the personal interests, the injustices with the ups and downs of life, and the daily miseries of personages who strain for taking possession of the crumbs of wealth that put themselves to his scope, they provide a vivid picture of local customs and manners of a time and a place in China.

Hong Ying. - K: The art of loving. The Aleph. 2004

This polemic novel based on real facts, which narrates the loves of Julian Bell, nephew of writer Virginia Wolf, and the wife of a teacher of literature in a Chinese university, in which the dió a few courses in the 30s. Across the woman, the British teacher begins in the secrets of the sexuality taoísta. A polemic novel prohibited in China for a demand of the progeny of the protagonist.

Hong Ying. - Daughter of the river. The Aleph. 2005

The work is of 1977, it is translated from English. This novel, in certain autobiographical form it treats about the life in the city of Chongqing, in an epoch that coincides with that of his youth and that takes him across the history and geography of China up to the Beijing of ends of the 80s.

Hong Ying. - The summer of the treachery. Square and Janés. 1998

In the tragic ambience of the slaughter of Tiananmen, perpetrated by the Chinese army against the students who were occupying the square, there develops the history, with big part of autobiography, of one young poet, who lives through the love and the horror without finding a clear exit.

Lilian Lee. - Farewell to my concubine. Editions B. 1997.

It is the history famous in the whole world thanks to the movie of equal name, of the relation between two actors of Opera of Beijing, from his first steps like students in the actors' school, up to the passion that is arising between them, shared then by an ex-prostitute, in the historical background of the frenetic XXth century.

Liu E. - The trips of the good doctor Can. Madrid, Publishing Chair, 2004. Translation of Gabriel García Noblejas.

At the end of the dynasty Qing, the Chinese literature experienced a renewal process for the increasing influence of the western literature, due to the deeper and deeper contact of the western thought in the bosom of the Chinese culture. One of the literary genres that experienced with more intensity this renewal was the novel. Between last two decades of the XIXth century and the first one of the XXth century, the novel was the fashionable genre of the epoch. The heyday of the periodicals, facilitated by the expansion of Reading criticism

Liu Hong. - The Mei perfume.

Meihong Xu and Larry Engelmann. - Daughter of China. Espasa. 2001

A real history of love and treachery. Ambientada in the black years of the Cultural revolution, sample like the ideals of a woman of the Chinese secret service, is cracked as it is meeting the teacher who must watch. The system will not allow his weakness, and both will suffer his particular drama.

Min, Anchee. - The Prohibited City. Of pocket. 489 pags.

Supported in a meticulous and faithful recreation of the Imperial China, this work describes an already missing world. The whole splendor of the court of Beijing to novelize the Orchid ascent, from simple concubine up to turning into the last empress of China. Across this woman who marked last half a century of hisatoria imperial, the authoress shows us a living lavida portrait in the court and the society of the epoch.

Min, Anchee. - Madame Mao. Mondadori. 320 pags.

There is clear the interest that Anchee Min feels in the most important feminine figures of the recent history of China. In this book there presents to us the intimate life of the most powerful woman of China during the first decades delrégimen communist, the actress Qian Jing, the fourth wife of Mao Zedong.

Nien Cheng. - The lady of Shanghai. Martínez Rock. 1998

Although new many have treated the Cultural revolution, this is one of few works that centers especially on this tragic epoch of the Chinese history. It does it narrating the sufferings of the proper authoress, a young woman educated in the best society of Shanghai, which returns to his country after the victory of the Communist Revolution.

Qian Zhongshu. - The beleaguered fortitude. Anagram. 2009

The Beleaguered Fortaleza is an uncomfortable work, placed in a period when the values that have determined the vital attitudes of generations of persons, are collapsing without still there arising the new some which to stick, shows the history of a young man adrift in the middle of a society, and of a country also adrift. In the middle of this human tide in movement, the achievement of seemingly simple tasks acquires an epic, dramatic character, which little by little is taking possession of the personage, of the novel, to cover with a dramatic aura the most innocent activities.

So, Amy. - The wife of the god of the fire. Tusquets. 1991

A woman, shortly before dying, narrates his daughter, his anxious past in the China of the first half of the XXth century. Secrets that until now had remained shut up in his memory, go out to the light, and in spite of the passage of time, have big aftereffect between his most related.

So, Amy. - Hundred secret senses. Tusquets. 1997

He narrates the history of the unexpected meeting of a woman but American, with his stepsister left in China when his father left the country for the communist revolution. An ambiguous relation between both women that comes to his icy point when both visit his native village.

So, Amy. - The Club of the Good Star. Tusquets. 1990. 344 pags.

The tragic destination of the persons in the China of the beginning of the XXth century turns out to be exemplified in the life of four women, who in San Francisco where they live, meet weekly to play the Majong. The death of one of them and the position of his daughter in his position serves to show the generational differences. On her there was based the magnificent movie of the same title.

So, Amy. - Against The destination. Areté. 2004

A species of autobiographical scraps of the writer in that it mixes his real experiences with his reflections on the topics that tackle his works, the conception of the same ones, his trips. An interesting collage for all those who have enjoyed the works of Amy Tan.

Wang Anyi. - Baotown. Youth. 1996

A novel on the Chinese rural life. Centred on Baotown, a small isolated village of the country for high mountains, the authoress realizes a beautiful description of the life in these lost villages, where the communist revolution scarcely has supposed a varnish on customs and millennial beliefs.

Wang, Lulu. - The theater of the irises. Tusquets. 1998

The history, somewhat autobiographical, of a girl who during the epoch of the Cultural revolution, visits his mother interned in a labor camp. During his stay there it is discovering the good and evil. His country and your own body, as well as thousand histories never few. Histories that it represents in his small theater before the frogs and cicadas of the lake.

Wei Hui. - Married with Buddha. Emece. 2005

The third novel of the polemic authoress of Shanghai Baby, he narrates the spiritual retirement of a woman, Coco, in the sacred island of Putoushan, after a series of affectionate adventures in New York.

Wei Hui. - Shanghai Baby. Geoplaneta. 2002. 272 pags.

Published in China to the loud snort of the irreverent "Lalala" of Mianmian, unfortunately offered to several Spanish publishers like novelty world and pushed back by all, he narrates the history of a woman in Shanghai, ready to experience all the new opportunities that the life of this city offers him with his numerous transformations. Scandal stone in a society who did not want to see what it had before his eyes, does not manage to support nevertheless the attention of the reader.

Xu Meihong and Engelman, Larry. - Daughter of China. Espasa.

Based on the real facts that the authors' couple led, he narrates the history of a young small stone stopped for supporting relations with a suspicious American teacher of spy. The amazing process is presented in detail. Difficult to think that we are in last years of the XXth century

Xu Xing.-Aventuras and misfortunes of a Chinese rascal. Rock. 2004

A madwoman ventures in that the protagonist moves trying to survive some of the historical events of last decade of the XXth century. Of Beijing to the Tibet and posterioremnte to Europe. From the Tiananamen events to the fall of the Wall of Berlin.

Ying Chen. - The ingratitude. Emecé. 1998

After taking his life, a young woman is inspecting the different events of his existence. Especially centred on this relation with his mother who takes him to the suicide, the novel describes the violence that sometimes hides in a seemingly harmonious everyday life.

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