The Tale of Li-Youcai's Rhymes

This book is an advanced reader in Chinese together with an introduction, a bibliography and notes on difficult points of language.

Chao Shu-Li (Author), Susan S. H. Macdonald (Edited by)

9780521095884, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 June 1970

140 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 0.8 cm, 0.14 kg

This digital edition is a reprint of a 1970 edition. It is an advanced reader in Chinese, giving a text in modern written Chinese reproduced from an original Chinese edition together with an introduction, a bibliography and notes on difficult points of language and on allusions to the cultural and historical context. Chao Shu-Li, born in 1907 in Shansi province of poor parents became first a village teacher and journalist and then a popular author. In the 1940s 'Study and learn from Chao Shu-Li' became a slogan among activist literary people, and he became a model writer of the cultural front formed in response to a call by Mao Tse-tung. In the Cultural Revolution, however, Chao was severely criticized. Chao's writing is simple, popular and unliterary, deliberately aimed at a mass readership.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Map
Glossary
Notes
Text.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]