The protagonist of "The Chess Master," 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. A Cheng has created in "The Chess Master" a radically new fiction that is both thoroughly modern and deeply imbued with the Chinese tradition. Less
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