Oddballs. Stories in Chinese and Russian Languages

The book includes 18 brilliant stories by the famous contemporary Chinese writer Fang Jicai.

They are dedicated to the life of the port city of Tianjin - the Chinese Odessa - and tell about stories with extraordinary personalities, people who are out of the ordinary.
All the stories are permeated with amazing humor and the indescribable color of China in the early 20th century.

The texts of the stories can be used for improving artistic translation from Chinese to Russian. For this purpose, each story is provided along with its Russian translation in the original language, and there is an article on translation techniques written by a unique specialist in the field of the Chinese language, N.A. Speshnev.

The book is in Chinese and Russian languages