The Chess Master is a story of escape and salvation, and the clue for both is chess.
The protagonist, Wang Yisheng, undergoes a gradual transformation from chess fool to chess master -- from an alienated young man obsessed with the material needs of life to a spiritually enlightened transmitter of the Chinese tradition.
By reversing the pervasive anti-traditional trend in modern Chinese literature and eschewing any overt influence from Western literature, Ah Cheng has created in th.
Chinese University Of Hong Kong Press The chess master: (chinese-english bilingual edition), paperback/a. cheng
