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

by Howard Goldblatt (Editor)

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Twenty stories by Chinese writers as they break free of the grip of uniformity which held them for over four decades. The stories include Can Xue's The Summons, on the last days of a murderer, Su Tong's The Brothers Shu, on male rivalry for a woman, and A String of Choices, which is a satirical look at Chinese health care by Wang Meng, a deposed minister of culture.

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Ai Bei (Author)
Bi Feiyu (Author)
Can Xue (Author)
Cao Naiqian (Author)
Chen Cun (Author)
Chen Ran (Author)
Chi Li (Author)
Duo Duo (Author)
Ge Fei (Author)
Hong Ying (Author)
Kong Jiesheng (Author)
Li Rui (Author)
Li Xiao (Author)
Mo Yan (Author)
Shi Tiesheng (Author)
Su Tong (Author)
Wang Meng (Author)
Wang Xiangfu (Author)
Yu Hua (Author)

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Gall, John (Cover designer)
Hongtu, Zhang (Cover artist)

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Fiction and Literature
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895.135208Literature & rhetoricAsian LiteratureLiteratures of East and Southeast AsiaChineseChinese fictionModern period 1912–20101949–2010
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PL2658 .E8 .C43Language and LiteratureLanguages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaLanguages of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaChinese language and literatureChinese literatureCollections
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