Last of the Whampoa Breed : Stories of the Chinese Diaspora, Hardcover by Qi,...

Description: Last of the Whampoa Breed : Stories of the Chinese Diaspora, Hardcover by Qi, Bangyuan (EDT); Wang, David Der-Wei (EDT); Chi, Pang-Yuan (EDT), ISBN 0231130023, ISBN-13 9780231130028, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Established in 1924 by Chiang Kai-Shek (1), Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. Its early graduates became the backbone of resistance against the Japanese during WWII. At the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1), they returned to China to face a civil war against communist forces in their homeland; in 1949 more than a million soldiers and their families were forced into a 40-year exile in Taiwan. Chi (English and comparative literature, National Taiwan U.) and Wang (Chinese studies, Columbia U.) present a collection of 13 stories of the exiles written by their descendants, some of whom have become Taiwan's most important authors. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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Book Title: Last of the Whampoa Breed : Stories of the Chinese Diaspora

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Item Height: 0.1 in

Topic: Asian / Chinese, Literary

Publication Year: 2003

Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Collections

Item Weight: 17.4 Oz

Author: David Der-Wei Wang

Item Length: 0.9 in

Item Width: 0.6 in

Book Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan Ser.

Format: Hardcover