The Chess Master (Chinese-English Bilingual Edition)

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 Chess Master a radically new fiction that is both thoroughly modern and deeply imbued with the Chinese tradition.

• Author
• Ah Cheng

• Format
• paperback

• Publisher
• Chinese University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9789629962371

• Genres
• fiction, chess, china, asia

• Release date
• 2005