ABSTRACT
Readers of Han Shaogong's fiction cannot fail to note that he has himself been influenced by Kafka and by the "magic realism" of Garcia Marquez. In 1987, the young author published a Chinese translation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. PRC writers have not been so polarized into modernist versus rural, provincialist "camps" as the Taiwanese writers whose essays appear later in this anthology.
