{"product_id":"9780143118350","title":"Short Stories in Chinese: New Penguin Parallel Text","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This new volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature from the world’s most spoken language, without having to constantly to refer back to a dictionary. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well-known writers as well as emerging voices. From a story by Li Rui about the honest simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to one by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society, they are infused with both rural dialect and urban slang and feature a wide range of styles and points of view.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047921991920,"sku":"9780143118350","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143118350_p0.jpg?v=1763656868","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143118350","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}