Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused - Fiction From Today''s China

Klappentext This book is a showcase for twenty writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism! experimental prose! and black humor; exoticism and eroticism; shocking tales of brutality! tender evocations of love! and engrossing mysteries all coexist in an anthology that spans nearly a decade! ten years that have witnessed a dizzying array of societal and political changes. Zusammenfassung Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism! experimental prose! and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality! tender evocations of love! and engrossing mysteries all coexist in an anthology that spans nearly a decade! ten years that have witnessed a dizzying array of societal and political changes. Almost all of the stories appear in English translation for the first time. Includes Shi Tiesheng! ?First Person”; Hong Ying! ?The Field”; Su Tong! ?The Brothers Shu”; Wang Meng! ?A String of Choices”; Li Rui! ?Sham Marriage”; Duo Duo! ?The Day I Got to Xi’an”; Chen Ran! ?Sunshine Between the Lips”; Li Xiao! ?Grass on the Rooftop”; Yu Hua! The Past and the Punishments”; Mo Yan! ?The Cure”; Ai Bei! ?Green Earth Mother”; Cao Naiqian! ?When I Think of You Late at Night! There’s Nothing I Can Do”; Can Xue! ?The Summons”; Bi Feiyu! ?The Ancestor”; Yang Zhengguang! ?Moonlight over the Field of Ghosts”; Ge Fei! ?Remembering Mr. Wu You”; Chen Cun! ?Footsteps on the Roof”; Chi Li! ?Willow Waist”; Kong Jiesheng! ?The Sleeping Lion”; Wang Xiangfu! ?Fritter Hollow Chronicles.”

Product details

• Authors: Collectif, Howard Goldblatt
• Assisted by: Howard Goldblatt (Editor)
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.1996
• EAN: 9780802134493
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3449-3
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Fiction from Today's China; Fiction from Today's China
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; China, FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, HISTORY / Asia / China, c 1990 to c 1999, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Asian / Chinese, Chinese National Day