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2015. Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. View. Buy This Book in Print. summary. In 1915, fourteen years before Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Doblin published his first novel, an extensively researched Chinese historical extravaganza: The Three Leaps of Wang Lun.
The Three Leaps of Wang Lun (Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun) is a historical novel by the German author Alfred Döblin that narrates upheaval and revolution in 18th-century China. Published in 1916 (although back-dated to 1915), this epic historical novel was Döblin's third novel (although it was the first to be published as a book).
- Alfred Döblin
- 1915
The Three Leaps of Wang Lun is the story of a doomed sectarian rebellion during the reign of Emperor Ch'ien-lung (1736-1796). It is also the most sustained evocation, in any European language, of a China untouched by the West.
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The Three Leaps of Wang Lun was Alfred Döblin’s first major work, and the first Western novel to depict a China untouched by the West. It was also the first modern German novel. Written just before the Great War and published in 1915, it was hailed as a masterpiece of the new movement called Expressionism, and won the Fontane Prize.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Other articles where Three Leaps of Wang-lun is discussed: Alfred Döblin: …drei Sprünge des Wang-lun (1915; The Three Leaps of Wang-lun), is set in China and describes a rebellion that is crushed by the tyrannical power of the state.
The Three Leaps of Wang Lun is the story of a doomed sectarian rebellion during the reign of Emperor Ch'ien-lung (1736-1796). It is also the most sustained evocation, in any...
Dec 1913: Several publishers have turned down Wang Lun. April 1914: S. Fischer contracts for Wang Lun. (AD will remain with the firm till 1933.) Dec 1914: After finishing a new novel (Wadzek …), AD volunteers as a military doctor. March 1916: Wang Lun is published. August 1916: AD is awarded the Fontane Prize for Wang Lun (600 Mark).
