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Overview
The Chess Master is a story of escape and salvation, and the clue for both is chess. The protagonist, Wang Yisheng, undergoes a gradual transformation from "chess fool" to "chess master" -- from an alienated young man obsessed with the material needs of life to a spiritually enlightened transmitter of the Chinese tradition. By reversing the pervasive anti-traditional trend in modern Chinese literature and eschewing any overt influence from Western literature, Ah Cheng has created in the The Chess Master a radically new fiction that is both thoroughly modern and deeply imbued with the Chinese tradition.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9789629962371
- ISBN-10: 9629962373
- Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
- Publish Date: October 2005
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.46 x 0.45 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.53 pounds
- Page Count: 180
- Reading Level: Ages 22-UP
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