''Classical Love'' () is a short story by

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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

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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 {{story-stub