Trees Without Wind: A Novel
by Rui Li
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Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Zhang Weiguo, a young ideologue who believes he is the model of a true revolutionary. Complicating matters is a woman named Nuanyu, who, like Zhang Weiguo and Director Liu, is an outsider show more untouched by the village's disease. "Wedded" to all of the male villagers, Nuanyu lives a polyandrous lifestyle based on necessity and at odds with the puritanical idealism of the Cultural Revolution. The deformed villagers, representing the manipulated masses of China, become pawns in the Party representatives' factional infighting. Director Liu and Zhang Weiguo's explosive tug-of-war is part of a larger battle among politics, self-interest, and passion gripping a world undone by ideological extremism. A collectively told narrative powered by distinctive subjectivities, Trees Without Wind is a milestone in the fictional treatment of a horrific event. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Trees Without Wind: A Novel
- Original title
- 无风之树
- Original publication date
- 1996
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- Genre
- Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 895.1352 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Chinese Chinese fiction Modern period 1912–2010 1949–2010
- LCC
- PL2877 .R85 .W7813 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Chinese language and literature Chinese literature Individual authors and works
- BISAC
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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