Bai Xianyong: Taibei People [New Edition] [Hardcover] [Chinese Edition]. ISBN: 9787549559886

Chinese Title: 台北人 (新版) (taibei ren xinban)
English Title Translation: Taibei People (New Edition)
Author/Editor: Bai Xianyong/Pai Hsien-yung (白先勇)
ISBN-10: 7-5495-5988-0, 7549559880
ISBN-13: 978-7-5495-5988-6, 9787549559886
Binding: hardcover
Pages: 291
Shipping Weight: 510g
Size: 142mm x 208mm
Language: simplified Chinese
Year of Publication: 2020
Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press (广西师范大学出版社)

Taibei People was written in the 1960s and first published in 1971 by Bai Xianyong (Pai Hsien-yung) and contains 14 short stories. What these short stories have in common is that they are all about people who came to Taiwan from mainland China in the 1950s. Simplified Chinese edition, hardcover binding.

台北人 (新版)
“一个作家，一辈子写了许多书，其实也只在重复自己的两三句话，如果能以各种角度，不同的技巧，把这两三句话说好，那就没白写了。

《台北人》对我比较重要一点。我觉得再不快写，那些人物，那些故事，那些已经慢慢消逝的中国人的生活方式，马上就要成为过去，一去不复返了。”

--- 白先勇