''Classical Love'' () is a short story by
Chinese
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writer
Yu Hua
Yu Hua (; born April 3, 1960, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province) is a Chinese author. Shortly after his debut as a fiction writer in 1983, his first breakthrough came in 1987, when he released the short story '' On the Road at Age Eighteen''. Yu H ...
that is an unconventional
parody
A parody, also known as a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its subj ...
of the classic scholar and beautiful maiden novel style.
References
* Hua, Yu. Translated by Andrew F. Jones. ''The Past and the Punishments''. Honolulu, USA: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996. pp. 12–61.
Short stories by Yu Hua
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