DISCOVERIES; Loud Sparrows Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts Selected and translated by Aili Mu, Jul...
DISCOVERIES; Loud Sparrows Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts Selected and translated by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu and Howard Goldblatt Columbia University Press/ Weatherhead Books on Asia: 304 pp., $24.50: HOME EDITION
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Los Angeles, Calif: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC
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Sometimes known as "one-minute fiction," "palm fiction," "snapshot fiction" or "urban legends," short-shorts have an ancient history: Their roots are in the Tang, Qing and Ming dynasties; they surfaced again in the 1960s in China, accompanied by the slogan "Everybody writes." Seen in this light, short-shorts bear a slight resemblance to blogs -- wr...
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DISCOVERIES; Loud Sparrows Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts Selected and translated by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu and Howard Goldblatt Columbia University Press/ Weatherhead Books on Asia: 304 pp., $24.50: HOME EDITION
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0458-3035
