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The three leaps of Wang Lun : a Chinese novel by Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957. Publication date 1991 Topics Wang, Lun, d. 1774 ... EPUB and PDF access not available for ...
Based on actual accounts of a doomed rebellion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the late 18th century, the novel tells the story of Wang Lun, a historical martial arts master and charismatic leader of the White Lotus sect, who leads a futile revolt of the "Truly Powerless."
Based on actual accounts of a doomed rebellion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the late 18th century, the novel tells the story of Wang Lun, a historical martial arts master and charismatic leader of the White Lotus sect, who leads a futile revolt of the “Truly Powerless.”
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).
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.
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...
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).
