Program

Research Programs: Scholarly Publications

Period of Performance

9/1/1986 - 2/28/1988

Funding Totals

$2,959.00 (approved)
$2,959.00 (awarded)


Shen Congwen, by Jeffrey Kinkley

FAIN: RP-20879-86

Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305-2004)
Grant A. Barnes (Project Director: April 1986 to April 1988)

To support the first comprehensive biography in any language of Shen Congwen (1902- ), one of the few Chinese writers to portray regional life, to remain apolitical, and to abandon writing after the Communist Revolution to preserve his artistic freedom.