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Wild Kids : Two Novels About Growing Up / Ta-chun Chang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern Chinese Literature from TaiwanPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 43 cartoon drawingsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231120975
  • 9780231500050
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.1/352 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- My kid sister -- A Present Just for Me -- Nausea -- A New Breed of Woman -- First Love -- Her Taboo -- On Treatment -- All That Remains Is Our Shell of Flesh -- Listening Intently and Telling Stories -- The Awakening of Laughter -- Chronicle of Death -- Ending in Insanity -- Wild Child -- A Drifting Preface -- Friends -- The Beginning -- In the Streets -- In the Heart of the Night -- Stories -- Games -- Good-for-nothings -- The Handgun -- Annie -- The Past -- On the Rooftop -- Brothers -- Mistakes -- The Hotel -- The Port -- Changes -- The Poster -- Secrets -- The Window -- Happiness -- Learning -- From Birth -- Pitiful -- The Celebrity -- The Adoption -- The Negotiation -- The Birthday -- And Supposing -- Forgetting
Summary: These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang Ta-chun's intricate narrative and keen, ironic sense of humor poignantly and piercingly convey the disillusionment and cynicism of modern Taiwanese youth.Interweaving the events between the birth of the narrator's younger sister and her abortion at the age of nineteen, the first novel, My Kid Sister, evokes the complex emotional impressions of youth and the often bizarre social dilemmas of adolescence. Combining discussions of fate, existentialism, sexual awakening, and everyday "absurdities" in a typically dysfunctional household, it documents the loss of innocence and the deconstruction of a family.In Wild Child, fourteen-year-old Hou Shichun drops out of school, runs away from home, and descends into the Taiwanese underworld, where he encounters an oddball assortment of similarly lost adolescents in desperate circumstances. This novel will inevitably invite comparisons with the classic The Catcher in the Rye, but unlike Holden Caulfield, Hou isn't given any second chances. With characteristic frankness and irony, Chang's teenagers bear witness to a new form of cultural and spiritual bankruptcy.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- My kid sister -- A Present Just for Me -- Nausea -- A New Breed of Woman -- First Love -- Her Taboo -- On Treatment -- All That Remains Is Our Shell of Flesh -- Listening Intently and Telling Stories -- The Awakening of Laughter -- Chronicle of Death -- Ending in Insanity -- Wild Child -- A Drifting Preface -- Friends -- The Beginning -- In the Streets -- In the Heart of the Night -- Stories -- Games -- Good-for-nothings -- The Handgun -- Annie -- The Past -- On the Rooftop -- Brothers -- Mistakes -- The Hotel -- The Port -- Changes -- The Poster -- Secrets -- The Window -- Happiness -- Learning -- From Birth -- Pitiful -- The Celebrity -- The Adoption -- The Negotiation -- The Birthday -- And Supposing -- Forgetting

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These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang Ta-chun's intricate narrative and keen, ironic sense of humor poignantly and piercingly convey the disillusionment and cynicism of modern Taiwanese youth.Interweaving the events between the birth of the narrator's younger sister and her abortion at the age of nineteen, the first novel, My Kid Sister, evokes the complex emotional impressions of youth and the often bizarre social dilemmas of adolescence. Combining discussions of fate, existentialism, sexual awakening, and everyday "absurdities" in a typically dysfunctional household, it documents the loss of innocence and the deconstruction of a family.In Wild Child, fourteen-year-old Hou Shichun drops out of school, runs away from home, and descends into the Taiwanese underworld, where he encounters an oddball assortment of similarly lost adolescents in desperate circumstances. This novel will inevitably invite comparisons with the classic The Catcher in the Rye, but unlike Holden Caulfield, Hou isn't given any second chances. With characteristic frankness and irony, Chang's teenagers bear witness to a new form of cultural and spiritual bankruptcy.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)