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Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China
Edited by Howard Goldblatt
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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.""
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Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Published date | 28 Mar 1996
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 322
Dimensions | 209 x 139 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 311g
ISBN | 978-0-8021-3449-3
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BISAC | fiction / anthologies (multiple authors)
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