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Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China
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Product Description 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.” From the Back Cover 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.
