MCLC: railways in literature (1,2,3)

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Kenny Ng Kwok Kwan <hmkng at ust.hk>
Subject: railways in literature (1)
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Zhang Henshui's Shanghai Express is another work in case.

It's great that someone has noticed Li Jieren's work. I have been working
on his Great Wave and the trilogy.

I wonder if some late Qing novels on Chinese immigrants in North America
relate to the railway constructions there. I am sure experts in the field
will point it out for you.

Kenny NG
HKUST

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From: Kristin E Stapleton <kstaple at buffalo.edu>
Subject: railways in literature (2)

I believe there is a section of Li Boyuan's Wenming xiaoshi (李伯元文明小史)
that
involves a foreign (Italian?) railroad engineer traveling through the late
Qing countryside causing disturbances (there is a similar scene in Eliot's
Middlemarch).  But it's not a prominent part of the novel, as I recall.
Zhang Henshui has short stories that feature trains, most famously in
"Shanghai Express."

By the way, a new edition of Li Jieren's complete works is out.  Here is
the information for those fellow Jieren fans out there (forwarding a
message to me from the editor):

《李劼人全集》在去年辛亥革命百年纪念由四川文艺出版社出版了，李劼人研究学会少量
的书
已经发完，你们学校若要买，只好与出版社直接联系。具体联系方式是：
     四川文艺出版社有限公司  
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      祝好！
                                                             张义奇
                                                          2012.1.28于成都

Kristin

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From: michelle yeh (mmyeh at ucdavis.edu)
Subject: railways in literature (3)

This may be later than the period you are interested in--Zhu Xining wrote a
short story "Molten Iron" (Tie3 jiang1) in Taiwan in the 1950s, set against
the background of the introduction of railways to a small town in north
China.

Michelle