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I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China
Wen Zhu
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Description for I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China
Hardback. Depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. This book offers an account of the often hedonistic individualism that is taking root. It depicts a spiritually bankrupt society, periodically rocked by spasms of uncontrolled violence. It presents a story about casual sex in a provincial city. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 390. And Other Stories of China. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. 256 pages. Depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. This book offers an account of the often hedonistic individualism that is taking root. It depicts a spiritually bankrupt society, periodically rocked by spasms of uncontrolled violence. It presents a story about casual sex in a provincial city. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; FYB. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 23. Weight: 390. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia.
In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wen's fiction offers an audaciously plainspoken account of the often hedonistic individualism that is feverishly taking root. Set against the mundane landscapes of contemporary China-a worn Yangtze River vessel, cheap diners, a failing factory, a for-profit hospital operating by dated socialist norms-Zhu Wen's stories zoom in on the often tragicomic minutiae of everyday life in this fast-changing country. With subjects ranging ... Read more
In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wen's fiction offers an audaciously plainspoken account of the often hedonistic individualism that is feverishly taking root. Set against the mundane landscapes of contemporary China-a worn Yangtze River vessel, cheap diners, a failing factory, a for-profit hospital operating by dated socialist norms-Zhu Wen's stories zoom in on the often tragicomic minutiae of everyday life in this fast-changing country. With subjects ranging ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Weatherhead Books on Asia
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231136945
SKU
V9780231136945
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About Wen Zhu
Zhu Wen became a full-time writer in 1994 after working for five years in a thermal power plant. His work has been published in mainland China's most prestigious literary magazines, and he has produced several poetry and short story collections and one novel. He has also directed four films, including Seafood, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 ... Read more
Reviews for I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China
Highly readable. Publishers Weekly Zhu Wen has a brilliant feel for detail in this colloquial, slangy translation.
Wingate Packard Seattle Times Brilliant... Wonderful... I Love Dollars is a publication that's not to be missed.
Bradley Winterton Taipei Times Splendidly translated by Julia Lovell... an absorbing portrait of the go-go years in China.
Jonathan Spence London Review of ... Read more
Wingate Packard Seattle Times Brilliant... Wonderful... I Love Dollars is a publication that's not to be missed.
Bradley Winterton Taipei Times Splendidly translated by Julia Lovell... an absorbing portrait of the go-go years in China.
Jonathan Spence London Review of ... Read more