Outlaws of the Marsh (5 Volumes) - Softcover

Kuan-Chung, Lo; Guanzhong, Luo; Nai'An, Shi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 7119032178 ISBN 13: 9787119032177

Publisher: CIPG, 1999

Synopsis

Hardcover Chinese language edition with Illustrations

About this title

From the Publisher:

CLASSIC NOVEL IN THREE VOLUMES

About the Author:

"The Patriotic and Righteous Outlaws of the Marsh is in one hundred chapters. Originally written by Shi Nai'an of Qiantang, and arranged by Luo Guanzhong." Luo Guanzhong, a native of Taiyuan, styled 'Wanderer of the Lakes and Seas.'He was solitary by nature, a writer of ballads and in esoteric language, which are original and fresh.

Shidney Shapiro was born in New York, USA, in 1915. In 1937 he graduated from the Faculty of Law at St. John's University, and began to practice as a lawyer. During the World War II he was recruited into the army, and later studied Chinese at Columbia University and Yale University. He came to China in April 1947, and in 1948 he married the Chinese writer Feng Fengzi (Phoenix). From 1952, Shapiro worked as an English-language speicalist at the magazine Chinese Literature, and later at China Pictorial. He took Chinese citizenship in 1963, and was a member of the sixth, seventh and eighth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He has translated Yuan Jing's Daughters and Sons, Ba Jin's Family, Mao Dun's Spring Silkworms, Qu Bo's Tracks in the Snowy Forest, Du Pengcheng's Defend Yan'an and Liu Qing's Builders of a New Life. Shapiro has also authored some books, including An American in China, My China, The law and lore of China: Criminal Justice, A Sampler of Chinese Literature- from the Ming Dynasty to Mao Zedong, Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars and Ma Haide- Saga of an American Doctor George Hatem.

About this edition

• Publisher: CIPG
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 7119032178
• ISBN 13: 9787119032177
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1540