Yiyan Wang, Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Lupke, Christopher

• This is a review of Yiyan Wang's single-author study of Jia Pingwa's literary works. It is a comprehensive work to the publication date (2006). Jia Pingwa is one of China's most important post-Mao authors with a stunning output of over a dozen major novels, not to mention poetry and prose essays. He has a penchant for rural China and a strong attachment to environmental concerns as well as the humane treatment of animals. His works are all set in his native province of Shaanxi.

• Date created

  2007-04-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Jia Pingwa;
  • fiction with autobiographical elements; allegory; soft masculinity; female domesticity; ethnography; native place; doubleness of literatus and modern intellectual.

• Type of Item

  Review

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-ha61-5478

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International