Backed Against the Sea (Ceas)Author Contributor(s): Wang, Wen Hsing ; Gunn, Edward M Publisher: Cornell University Cornell East Asia Series Date: 04 30 2011 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960s, this novel prompted the first critical discussion of postmodernism in Chinese fiction and still