Huang chunming biography of donald
This collection of short stories by Taiwanese author Huang Chunming, translated by Howard Goldblatt, reflects the lives and struggles of the common Taiwanese.
Award-winning author Huang Chun-ming's short-story collections-My Son's Big Toy; Cymbal; Sayonara, Goodbye; Days of Watching the Sea; The Young Widow; and I.!
His Son's Big Doll
Collection of short stories written by Huang Chunming
Son's Big Doll (Chinese: 兒子的大玩偶) is a collection of short stories written by Huang Chunming, a significant Taiwaneserealistic novelist, during the 1960s and 1970s.
During the period (the 1960s and 70s) of realism, Taiwanese literature was experiencing a flourishing development of both modernism and realistic localism. Son's Big Doll depicts the struggles and dilemmas of ordinary people in early Taiwanese society.
It's one of Huang Chunming's representative works of realism and reflects human emotions and the social culture of the time.
The story follows the protagonist Kunshu, who voluntarily dresses up as a "clown" to work as a promotional gimmick (a so-called “sandwich man”) for a movie theater.
Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius.After returning home, Kunshu always interacts with his child while dressed as a clown. The child becomes accustomed to Kunshu's clown appearance. Eventually, when he no longer needs the makeup job, his own