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Guo's compassion, insight and understated style shine through, tying his characters' lives to the contemporary cultural questions with grace and skill. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Guo's impressionistic style hones in on the details of everyday life... [and] captures moments of rare beauty. -- Melissa McClements Financial Times Guo refreshingly and poignantly portrays the political reverberations of Taiwan's turbulent 20th century. -- Paul Mozur Far Eastern Economic Review A very valuable publication, and an important addition [to] Columbia's indispensable Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan series. -- Bradley Winterton Taipei Times

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Foreword: Summer 1961 Introduction: Guo Songfen, Taiwan's "Lost" Modernist Moon Seal Wailing Moon Running Mother Clover Snow Blind Brightly Shine the Stars Tonight

Running Mother and Other Stories

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    A Hardback by Songfen Guo, John Balcom

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      Publisher Columbia University Press
      Published 24 October 2008
      ISBN-13 9780231147347
      978-0231147347
      ISBN-10 0231147341
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      Anthologies & Short Stories

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Guo's compassion, insight and understated style shine through, tying his characters' lives to the contemporary cultural questions with grace and skill. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Guo's impressionistic style hones in on the details of everyday life... [and] captures moments of rare beauty. -- Melissa McClements Financial Times Guo refreshingly and poignantly portrays the political reverberations of Taiwan's turbulent 20th century. -- Paul Mozur Far Eastern Economic Review A very valuable publication, and an important addition [to] Columbia's indispensable Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan series. -- Bradley Winterton Taipei Times

      Table of Contents
      Foreword: Summer 1961 Introduction: Guo Songfen, Taiwan's "Lost" Modernist Moon Seal Wailing Moon Running Mother Clover Snow Blind Brightly Shine the Stars Tonight

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