Fat Years - Chan Koonchung [135]
Chan Koonchung was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. He has previously written several works of nonfiction, a novel, and short stories. This is his first novel to be translated into English. In 1976 Chan founded the influential City magazine in Hong Kong, where he was editor in chief and then publisher for twenty-three years. He lives in Beijing.
Michael S. Duke received his doctorate in Chinese from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975. After thirty years of teaching, he is Professor Emeritus of Chinese and Comparative Literature from the University of British Columbia.
Julia Lovell teaches modern Chinese history and literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of The Great Wall: China Against the World and The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China and writes on China for the Guardian, the Independent and the Times Literary Supplement. Her many translations of modern Chinese fiction include, most recently, Lu Xun’s The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China.
Table of Contents
Cover
Publisher Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
A Note On Pronunciation
List Of Main Characters
Part One
1. Two Years From Now
2. Never Forget
3. From Spring To Summer
Part Two
1. Wandering Back And Forth
2. The Faith, Hope, And Love Of Several People
Part Three
Epilogue: A Very Long Night, or a Warning About China’s Twenty-first-century Age of Ascendancy
Translator’s Note
Translator’s Endnotes
About the Authors