Search Results for: The Execution Of Mayor Yin And Other Stories From The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Revised Edition

Annotation A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revol

Eight stories displaying anger, melancholy, and satire reflect the dissident literature of contemporary China and the reality of life during and after the Cultu

Praise for the first edition: "... in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival -- and sometimes the defeat -- of the hum

As China's centrally planned economy and welfare state have given way to a more loosely controlled version of "late socialism," public concern about economic re

The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revoluti