The King of Chess
by Ah Cheng
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The Chess Master is a story of escape and salvation, and the clue for both is chess. The protagonist, Wang Yisheng, undergoes a gradual transformation from "chess fool" to "chess master" -- from an alienated young man obsessed with the material needs of life to a spiritually enlightened transmitter of the Chinese tradition. By reversing the pervasive anti-traditional trend in modern Chinese literature and eschewing any overt influence from Western literature, Ah Cheng has created in the The show more Chess Master a radically new fiction that is both thoroughly modern and deeply imbued with the Chinese tradition. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The King of Chess
- Original title
- 棋王
- Original publication date
- 1984
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 895.1352 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Chinese Chinese fiction Modern period 1912–2010 1949–2010
- LCC
- PL2833 .A3 .Q1 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Chinese language and literature Chinese literature Individual authors and works
- BISAC
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- Languages
- Chinese, English, Italian
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