Chairman Mao Would Not be Amused: Fiction from Today's China

by HowardGoldblatt (Editor)

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  2000

  $13.86

  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.