The Past and the Punishments - Eight Stories

To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify. This is the first collection short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s.

Product details

• Authors: Yu Hua, Hua Yu, Yu Hua
• Assisted by: Andrew F Jones (Translation), Andrew F. Jones (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.1996
• EAN: 9780824817824
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-1782-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 211 mm x 144 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Fiction from Modern China; Fiction from Modern China S.; Fiction from modern China
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies